SOLUTION: distinguish permutation of the word decreed

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Question 541020: distinguish permutation of the word decreed
Answer by AnlytcPhil(1806)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If we could tell the two d's apart, and the three e's apart, and the
word were written like this:

decrEᕮD

then the answer would be 7! = 5040

However if we take a random permutation of that, say

cᕮDerdE

There are 3! ways to arrange the ᕮ, e, and E within that permutation,
and every other permutation of decrEᕮD is the same way, so that
means that the 7! or 5040 counts the same permutation 3! of 6 times too
many, so we must divide by 3! or 6.

But there are also 2! ways the D and d can be arranged, so we must
also divide by 2!, since we cannot tell the D from the d when they are
both small d's.  Therefore the number of distinguishable ways when
all the e's look alike and both the d's look alike, is given by

 =  =  = 420    
   
Edwin



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