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Question 1160676: A home improvement store has the following house numbers: 335666 left after a sale. How many different six-digit house numbers can be made from those numbers? Answer by ikleyn(52914) (Show Source):
As the condition says, the store has two digits { 3 "; one digit " 5 ", and 3 digits " 6 ".
So, in all there are 6 digits at the store;
of them, digit 3 has the multiplicity of 2;
digit 5 has the multiplicity of 1;
and digit 6 has the multiplicity of 3.
The number of all possible different six-digit arrangements of these digits is
= = 120.
In the formula, 6! is the number of all possible permutations of 6 different digits;
the factors in the denominator account for repeating arrangements, that occur due to presence of indistinguishable digits.