How many distinct ways can the eleven letters in the word "TALLAHASSEE" be arranged?
1 Answer
Apr 16, 2018
Explanation:
11 letters can be rearranged in 11! ways.
However, in TALLAHASSEE, there are 3 A's 2 L's, 2S's and 2E's. Rearranging any of these repeated letters among themselves do not change the resulting word.
Such rearrangements can be done in
Thus the number of distinct words is