Returning to Exercise 2, the answer 1,680 obtained above involves unintentionally putting the three groups in order. This was acceptable for Exercise 1, but not for Exercise 2. For example, the group formation ABC | DEF | GHI is being counted differently from the group formation GHI | ABC | DEF (note that the order of the three letters comprising a group is immaterial here). There are 3! = 6 ways to permute the same three groups of three (see Figure 9), and thus, each way of grouping nine individuals into three groups of three is being counted six times. Therefore, the correct answer here is 1,680/6 = 280.