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  • Nov 13, 2012, 08:34 AM
    DMunna
    Proability
    In how many different ways can the letters in the letter in the word ARRANGEMENT be arranged?
  • Nov 13, 2012, 09:24 AM
    ebaines
    If the letters were all different the answer would be 11! but since the word contains some duplicates you need to reduce this. Here's how - note that there are 2 A's, so for each arrangement of the A's there are two "duplicates," hence you divide by 2. In general for each letter that occurs N times you divide by N! because that's how many ways those duplicates could be arranged. For example the word TEETHE has 2 T's and 3 E's, so the number of unique arrangements is 6!/(2! X 3!) = 60.

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