SOLUTION: How many arrangements can be formed of the letters EXAMINATION so that vowels occupy odd places.

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Question 548357: How many arrangements can be formed of the letters EXAMINATION so that vowels occupy odd places.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
How many arrangements can be formed of the letters EXAMINATION so that vowels occupy odd places.
Look at an arbitrary arrangement with vowels in the odd
positions, say, this one:

AMANENITIXO 

is composed of the two arrangements

A A E I I O  

   and

 M N N T X

The number of distinguishable arrangements of A A E I I O is 
We have to divide by the factorial of each number of indistinguishable
letters. We divided by 2! because of the 2 A's and again by 2! because of
the 2 I's.

For each of those, the number of distinguishable arrangements of M N N T X is
  We have to divide by the factorial of the number of
indistinguishable letters N. So we divided by 2! because of the 2 N's.

So the total number is  

× = 10800

Edwin


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