In how many ways can 5 distinct books be distributed into 2 identical shelves without leaving any of them empty?
30
26
25
62
Empty box is not allowed
So, number of ways of distributing '' distinct things in '
' identical places can be computed by the formula,
Here, number of books
number of shelves
Using the equation, we obtain:
Total number of ways: 30
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