document.write( "Question 912309: find the number of arrangement of the letters of the word CERTIFICATE which begins with c \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "\"CERTIFICATE\" has 11 letters.  Since a C must be first, the problem \r\n" );
document.write( "becomes finding the number of distinguishable ways we can follow the\r\n" );
document.write( "C with the 10 other letters.  That is the same as the problem:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Find the number of distinguishable arrangements of \"ERTIFICATE\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"ERTIFICATE\" has 10 letters, including 2 indistinguishable E's, 2\r\n" );
document.write( "indistinguishabe T's and 2 indistinguishable I's.  We divide 10! by\r\n" );
document.write( "the factorials of all these.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer: \"10%21%2F%282%212%212%21%29\" = 453600\r\n" );
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