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What is the total number of different 9-letter arrangements that can be formed using the letters in the word AMENDMENT?
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What is the total number of different 99-letter arrangements that can be formed using the letters in the word AMENDMENT?\newlineAnswer:

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Q. What is the total number of different 99-letter arrangements that can be formed using the letters in the word AMENDMENT?\newlineAnswer:
  1. Count Letters and Frequencies: Determine the total number of letters and the frequency of each letter in the word AMENDMENT.\newlineThe word AMENDMENT has 99 letters in total. The letter frequencies are as follows:\newlineA - 11 time\newlineM - 22 times\newlineE - 22 times\newlineN - 22 times\newlineD - 11 time\newlineT - 11 time
  2. Use Permutations Formula: Use the formula for permutations of a multiset to calculate the number of different arrangements.\newlineThe formula is:\newlineNumber of arrangements = n!n1!×n2!××nk!\frac{n!}{n_1! \times n_2! \times \ldots \times n_k!}\newlinewhere nn is the total number of letters, and n1,n2,,nkn_1, n_2, \ldots, n_k are the frequencies of each distinct letter.\newlineFor AMENDMENT, this becomes:\newlineNumber of arrangements = 9!1!×2!×2!×2!×1!×1!\frac{9!}{1! \times 2! \times 2! \times 2! \times 1! \times 1!}
  3. Calculate Total Factorial: Calculate the factorial of the total number of letters, which is 9!9!.\newline9!=9×8×7×6×5×4×3×2×1=362,8809! = 9 \times 8 \times 7 \times 6 \times 5 \times 4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1 = 362,880
  4. Calculate Letter Factorials: Calculate the factorial for each of the letter frequencies.\newlineSince the frequencies are 11 or 22, we only need to calculate 2!2!.\newline2!=2×1=22! = 2 \times 1 = 2\newline1!=11! = 1 (but we don't really need to calculate this since the factorial of 11 is 11)
  5. Divide Factorials for Arrangements: Divide the total factorial by the product of the factorials of the letter frequencies.\newlineNumber of arrangements = 362,8801×2×2×2×1×1\frac{362,880}{1 \times 2 \times 2 \times 2 \times 1 \times 1}\newlineNumber of arrangements = 362,8808\frac{362,880}{8}\newlineNumber of arrangements = 45,36045,360

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