Car Engines   In an eight-cylinder V8 engine, the even-numbered cylinders are on the left and the odd-numbered cylinders are on the right. A good firing order is a sequence of the numbers 1 through 8 in which right and left sides alternate.   (a) How many possible good firing sequences are there?  _________ firing sequences   (b) How many good firing sequences are there that start with a cylinder on the left?  __________ firing sequences

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Car Engines   In an eight-cylinder V8 engine, the even-numbered cylinders are on the left and the odd-numbered cylinders are on the right. A good firing order is a sequence of the numbers 1 through 8 in which right and left sides alternate.
 
(a)
How many possible good firing sequences are there?
 _________ firing sequences
 
(b)
How many good firing sequences are there that start with a cylinder on the left?
 __________ firing sequences
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