SOLUTION: out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words each containing 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be formed?

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Question 1120191: out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words each containing 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be formed?
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out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words each containing 3 consonants and 2 vowels can be formed?
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The condition says nothing about repeating/non-repeating letters. I will consider the case when repeating is NOT allowed.

We can select 3 different consonants out of 7 by  C%5B7%5D%5E3 ways;

We can select  2 different vowels out of 4  by  C%5B4%5D%5E2 ways;

We can order  any 3+2 = 5 letters word by  5! = 120 ways.


So, the number of ways in this case is equal to   C%5B7%5D%5E3.C%5B4%5D%5E2.120.