If you mean re-arranging the letters 'g', 'r', 'e', 'a', and 't' in different sequences, then: We have five letters. The first letter can be any one of the five.
For each choice, the second letter can be any one of the remaining four.
For each choice, the third letter can be any one of the remaining three.
For each choice, the fourth letter can be either one of the remaining two.
Then there is only one letter left to put in the fifth place. So there are (5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1) = 120 different ways to carry out this process.
In how many distinct ways can the letters of the word MEDDLES be arranged?
Tiffany
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30 ways
360 times
In how many distinct ways can the letters of the word MEDDLES be arranged?
raisesiresrises------------------------------------They can be arranged in 5!=120 ways.
24 ways.
There are 1,663,200 ways.
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121
In 6!, or 720 ways.
There are 40320 ways.
Tiffany
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Oh, dude, you're hitting me with the big brain stuff now! Okay, so the word "communication" has 12 letters, but it has repeated letters, so you can't just do 12 factorial. You gotta take into account the repeated letters, and like, do some math magic with it. So, there are 12 factorial divided by (2 factorial x 3 factorial x 2 factorial) ways you can arrange the letters of "communication." Math and words, man, they can be wild!
There are 59875200 ways.