The number of ways to schedule six activities

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I'm trying to review for Probabilities and Statistics and came upon this Question.

If one needs to schedule a job interview for someone who wants to teach at a school. For the day of the interview, I need to schedule six different activities for the candidite:

  • Meet with the Vice President of the school
  • Talk with the Teachers in the department
  • Tour the area/campus
  • Teach a lesson
  • take a 15 min break
  • take a 30 min break

How many unique schedules can I create if I can't schedule a break at the beginning nor end? Assuming I must schedule each of the six activities at least once.


Normally if the order didn't matter I would just say 6! but since the breaks can't be in the beginning or end, i'm at a bit of a loss.