First we calculate how many indistinguishable permutations of the 16 letters: A,D,D,E,I,L,L,M,M,O,O,O,R,R,T,V If the letters were distinguishable the answer would be 16! However there are: 2 indistinguishable D's, 2 indistinguishable L's, 2 indistinguishable M's, 3 indistinguishable O's, 2 indistinguishable R's. So we must divide the 16! by 2!2!2!3!2!That works out to be 217945728000. So the probability is 1 way out of 217945728000 or Edwin