P E P P E R If we could tell the difference between the P's, and also tell the difference between the E's, like this: P E P P E R then the number of arrangements would be 6! or 720. However since the P's are indistinguishable, each permutation of the 720, is counted too many times as many as the number of ways the three P's can be arranged in each permutation times the number of ways that the 2 E's can be arranged in each permutation. Therefore we divide by 3!*2! AnswerEdwin