thermometer In alphabetical order, the letters are eeehmmorrtt If you could tell the like letters apart, the answer would be 11!. But there are 3 indistinguishable e's, 2 indistinguishable m's, 2 indistinguishable r's and 2 indistinguishable t's. So we must divide that number, 11!, by the product of thr factorials of all of those. Answer:= 1663200 Edwin