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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ia Paper 2 1E iv Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
The product of two transpositions has three possible forms. Equal transpositions produce the identity, transpositions meeting in one letter produce a three-cycle, and disjoint transpositions produce two disjoint two-cycles. There are two three-cycles on each chosen triple and three pairings of each chosen four-set. Therefore the number of distinct permutations representable this way is