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To calculate the number of ways the letters in the word "pencil" can be rearranged, we first determine the total number of letters, which is 6. Since there are two repeated letters (the letter 'e'), we divide the total number of letters by the factorial of the number of times each repeated letter appears. This gives us 6! / 2! = 360 ways to rearrange the letters in the word "pencil."
In how many distinct ways can the letters of the word MEDDLES be arranged?
4! = 24 ways.
There are 40,320 ways to arrange eight letters. In this case, around sixty of those ways will result in English words.
24 ways