ENTERTAINMENT In alphabetical order, the letters are A,E,E,E,I,M,N,N,N,R,T,T,T. First we find the number of distinguishable arrangements, regardless of whether the three E's are apart or not. That's 13 things with 3 indistinguishable E's, 3 indistinguishable N's, and 3 indistinguishable T's, That'sFrom that we will subtract the ones with some E's together. They consist of two cases: Case 1. the number of arrangements that have all three E's together, like EEE. That's the number of arrangements of these 11 "things" with 3 indistinguishable N's and 3 indistinguishable T's. A,EEE,I,M,N,N,N,R,T,T,T. That's ways. and Case 2. the number of arrangements that have EE together and the E apart from it. First we find the number of arrangements without any E's. That's the number of arrangements of these 10 things, which have 3 indistinguishable N's and 3 indistinguishable T's: A,I,M,N,N,N,R,T,T,T. That's Then we'll insert an EE and an E among them so that we don't put them together, avoiding counting again the ones with EEE from case 1. To do that, we now look at a random arrangement from the 100800 with no E's at all, say this one: T,R,N,A,I,T,N,N,M,T We put 8 spaces between the letters, 1 space in the beginning, and 1 space at the end. That's 10 spaces, and we'll put an E in one of them and EE in another one. That way the E and the EE won't be together. _T_R_N_A_I_N_N_M_T_ We can choose the space to put the single E in in 10 ways. That leaves 9 spaces to put the double EE in. So for each of the 100800 ways we can insert the E and the EE in 10∙9 or 90 ways. That's 100800∙90 = 9072000 ways to have EE separate from E. So the total number that we must subtract from 28828800 is 1108800 from case 1 and 9072000 from case 2. 28828800-1108800-9072000 = 15348000 ways. Edwin