SOLUTION: How many alphabetically ordered 7 letter words (meaningless or not) can be made with the 26 letters of the alphabet. Note: repetition of letters is not allowed

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Question 824863: How many alphabetically ordered 7 letter words (meaningless or not) can be made with the 26 letters of the alphabet. Note: repetition of letters is not allowed
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) About Me  (Show Source):
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If we start with the complete alphabet:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

and choose 19 of the letters to remove, for instance like this:

A---E--H-JK------R------Y-,

that will leave the alphabetically ordered 7-letter "word" AEHJKRY.

So from the 26 letters we want to choose 19 to remove.

Answer: C(26,19) = 657800

Edwin