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Let
is permutaion of
. For this permutaion call the pair
wrong pair if
and
.Let number of inversion is number of wrong pair of permutation
. Let
is positive integer. Find the number of permutation of
such that its number of inversion is divisible by
.

somebody lend me a hand?
 

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(n-1)!

EDIT: here's a link http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/resources.php?p=1139336
it's a standard trick. Essentially what they aare saying is that for each permutation of the first n-1 elements, there is precisely 1 place where the nth can go to make the number og inversions a multiple of n
 
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