document.write( "Question 885180: how many ways can the letters in the word BUSINESS be arranged
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document.write( "The answer would be 8! if we could tell the three S's apart.  But since\r\n" );
document.write( "we can't, 8! is too much, because it counts each distinguishable arrangement\r\n" );
document.write( "as many times too many times as there are ways to arrange the three S's\r\n" );
document.write( "in each arrangement, which is 3! ways.  So we divide 8! by 3!:\r\n" );
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