(b) A class of 18 students is divided into 3 groups of four students and 2 groups of three students. How many ways can this happen? (The answer is huge. Nevertheless, it would not be unbelievable for you to end up in the exact same group twice.)

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Use the figure below from your textbook which shows four different distributions of a system of 13 particles over 6 states
(a) Propose TWO more distributions that also have the same total energy as these four. Also calculate the weight of these two new distributions.
(b) A class of 18 students is divided into 3 groups of four students and 2 groups of three students. How many ways can this happen? (The answer is huge. Nevertheless, it would not be
unbelievable for you to end up in the exact same group twice.)
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Transcribed Image Text:Use the figure below from your textbook which shows four different distributions of a system of 13 particles over 6 states (a) Propose TWO more distributions that also have the same total energy as these four. Also calculate the weight of these two new distributions. (b) A class of 18 students is divided into 3 groups of four students and 2 groups of three students. How many ways can this happen? (The answer is huge. Nevertheless, it would not be unbelievable for you to end up in the exact same group twice.) Sev_ Bev - 2ev - Tov Oov - (a) (b) (c) (d)
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