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10 identical balls are distributed in 5 different boxes kept in a row and labeled A,B,C,D and E.  Find the number of ways in which these balls can be distributed in the boxes if no two adjacent boxes remain empty.

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answer is 771.

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Case –1:When no box remains empty it is equivalently distributing 10 coins in 5 beggar 
 0  0  0  0  05  0  0  0  04=9C4=126
Case –2: Exactly one is empty
  5C10  0  0  0  0  050  0  0  =5.  9C3=420
Case –3: Exactly two remains empty
 (5C2 two adjacent)  9C2  0  0  0  0  0  0  070  0  (104)  ×  9C2
 6×36=216
Case –4: Exactly three empty. There is only 1 way to select 3 if no two adjacent
Hence 1.   9C1=9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    0
Total = 771 ways

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10 identical balls are distributed in 5 different boxes kept in a row and labeled A, B, C, D and E.  Find the number of ways in which these balls can be distributed in the boxes if no two adjacent boxes remain empty.