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Firstly, consider a and b as one person. Then the number of permutations of 6 people taken six at a time is:
[tex]6\times5\times4\times3\times2\times1=720.[/tex]
But for each of these combinations there are two ways in which a and b can sit together. Therefore the total number of permutations of the 7 people is given by:
[tex]720\times2=1440.[/tex]
The answer is: 1440 ways.