There are four different groups of three, each of which can be arranged in six different ways so your answer is 24.
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There are: 35C3 = 6545 combinations
17,576 possible combinations * * * * * Not quite! This is the total number of permutations of 3 letters out of 26. AAB is counted as being different from ABA or BAA. But these are the same combinations. Thus there are 26 combinations of just one letter. 26*25 combinations of two letters and 26*25*24/(3*2*1) of three. In all, that makes 26 + 650 + 2600 = 3276
There are 6C3 = 20 such combinations.
There are 5C3 = 10 combinations.
Assuming you can have duplicate letters such as AAA, AAB etc... there are 26 x 26 x 26 combinations - which is a total of 17,576 permutations !
233 = 18 combinations.
3 items each in 3 categories gives 3*3*3 = 27 possible combinations.
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