Question regarding seats.

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There are 7 people, and 2 of them are grandma, and grandpa.

7 of them have to sit on a car, which has seats located as following: 2 seats in the front, 3 seats in the middle, 2 seats in the back.

Grandma and grandpa MUST sit in the middle.

How many possible different ways of them sitting?

Thank you.

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Okay, so first let's put Grandma and Grandpa in the middle.

You have $3$ ways to seat Grandma, and then you have $2$ ways to seat Grandpa. Then you can choose from $5$ other people to put in the last seat in the middle row.

Then, you have $4$ ways to choose a person in the drivers seat, $3$ ways to choose the person in the front passenger seat, $2$ ways to choose for the left-back seat, and only $1$ remaining way to choose the right back seat.

So, your answer is $3\cdot 2\cdot 5\cdot 4!=720$ ways.