Question

A popular newspaper puzzle
involves a series of letters that can be
rearranged to form a word. Will is
writing his own version of the game for a
school project. He wants to scramble the
following word for his puzzle.

NUMBERS

How many ways are there to arrange the
letters with the letter b as the first
letter? Work please!

Answer 1

bum
bun
buns
bums

Answer 2

..

Answer 3

well, most of these are going to be gibberish letters, but starting with B the total number of combinations you can make are.... look, so B, and then theres 6 letters left, and so you take the 6 letters and put them to the power of 6

Answer 4

so it would me 6 to the power of 6?

Answer 5

Um, I think so, yes...

Answer 6

ok

Answer 7

like the blind man and the elephant, everyone interprets this problem differently
what is it really asking? how many ways to scramble the letters in the word NUMBERS if the first letter is B?

Answer 8

After the B, there are 6 distinct letters with 6! arrangements.
6! = 720

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

if that is the question, then the answer is what valpey said

Answer 11

ok

Answer 12

as in
\[6\times 5\times 4\times 3\times 2\]

Answer 13

Oh, I see.