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If the best and the worst paper never appear together, find in how many ways six examination papers can be arranged.

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480
If the best and worst papers appear always together, the number of ways is `5!xx2`. Therefore, the required number of ways is as follows.
Total number of ways without any restrictions -Number of ways when best and worst paper are together `=6!-5!xx2=480`.
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