The school that Lisa goes to is selling tickets to the annual talent show. On the first day of ticket sales the school sold 4 se
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Answer:
4989600
Step-by-step explanation:
The given word is MATHEMATICS
Number of letters in the given word is 11
there are 2 M's, 2 A's and 2 T's
the given word is arranged in 11! ways
three letters are repeating, so we divide by repeating occurrences
number of different arrangements =
= 4989600
To solve this problem, just use multiplication.
You can somewhat think of this situation as a sort of tree. You start with 7 large branches representing the pants, then for every one of those you have 3 medium-sized branches to represent the pairs of pants. Each one of those has 5 sticks for the ties, which in turn each have 6 leaves to represent the jackets and therefore a complete outfit. The solution is found by getting the total number of leaves on the tree.