Question

How many different arrangements of the letters in the word "PURPLE" are there

Answer 1

6!

Answer 2

If you take the number of letters available (6) and multiply it by the number of positions available (6) you'll get the right answer: 36 = 6^2

Answer 3

36????? O.o
u got 6 choices for the 1st letter,5 for the second,4 for the third,3 for the forth,2 for the fifth and 1 for the sixth=6!

Answer 4

{1,2,3,4,5,6}
P U R P L E can go to any of these numbers, so if you spelt
UPRPLE with U=1, P=2, etc. then that represents 1 combination. PURPLE itself is also a combination. Each letter can be equal to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, and since you have 6 letters, 6^2 = 36.

Answer 5

Ok...I'm confused now.....

Answer 6

6!
-- is what I see.
2!

Answer 7

when some items are identical to others:

n!
---------------
n1! n2! n3! ... nk!

Answer 8

since we have 2 letters allike; and the rest are just singles

6!
-- would be it
2!

Answer 9

:@@@@@@@@@@@@ U got another answer!!!!!!!!
so Tangent and I were wrong...this is gr8 :P:P:P:P
thnx ☺☺

Answer 10

have fun yall ;) i gotta head to class

Answer 11

see ya :)

Answer 12

"when some items are identical to others:
n!
---------------
n1! n2! n3! ... nk!"

But why is this the case, and how do you find values for n?

Answer 13

6!
--
2!