PROBABILITY Now if you could tell the B's apart and the I's apart like you can when you color the two B's and the two I's different colors, like this: PROBABILITY then the number of ways would be 11! However when the like letters are colored the same, then, for example, you can't tell the following 4 arrangements apart: 1. LBIRTIOBYPA 2. LBIRTIOBYPA 3. LBIRTIOBYPA 4. LBIRTIOBYPA because they will all look the same, like this LBIRTIOBYPA So we must divide theby 4. The reason we divide by 4 is because there are 2! ways to arrange the two B's TIMES 2! ways to arrange the two I's, and 2!*2!=2*2=4 So the answer is Edwin