document.write( "Question 997217: In the word \"COMPUTER\", there are 40320 distinct permutations. Among these permutations, how many of them:
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document.write( "The answers to both (a) and (b) are the same, as they are each\r\n" );
document.write( "just the distinct permutations of \"OMPUTE\", which is 6! = 720.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's because for each of the 720 distinct permutations of \r\n" );
document.write( "\"OMPUTE\" you can put a C on the far left and an R on the far \r\n" );
document.write( "right, or vice-versa.\r\n" );
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