document.write( "Question 346751: How many different arrangements can be formed using the letters P E P P E R \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "P E P P E R\r\n" );
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document.write( "If we could tell the difference between the P's, and also tell\r\n" );
document.write( "the difference between the E's, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "P E P P E R \r\n" );
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document.write( "then the number of arrangements would be 6! or 720.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "However since the P's are indistinguishable,\r\n" );
document.write( "each permutation of the 720, is counted too many times\r\n" );
document.write( "as many as the number of ways the three P's can be arranged\r\n" );
document.write( "in each permutation times the number of ways that the 2 E's can\r\n" );
document.write( "be arranged in each permutation.  Therefore we divide by 3!*2!\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer \r\n" );
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