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Question 567608: If an experiment consists of throwing a die and then drawing a letter at random from the English alphabet, how many points are in the sample space?
-a. How many distinct permutations can be made from the letters of the word columns?
b. How many of these permutations start with the letter “m”?

Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If an experiment consists of throwing a die and then drawing a letter at random from the English alphabet, how many points are in the sample space?
Ans: 6*26
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-a. How many distinct permutations can be made from the letters of the word columns?
Ans: 7! = 5040
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b. How many of these permutations start with the letter “m”?
Ans: 1*6! = 720
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Cheers,
Stan H.

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