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With 6 different letters, no repetition (like you have 6 different Scrabble tiles), and if order is important, then the proper statistical term is permutation, rather than combination, but many people refer to this type of application as a combination.

The permutation (no repetition) of n items taken rat a time is n!/(n-r)! with in this case n=6 and r=6. The exclamation mark is notation for factorial.

6! = 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1. (6-6)! = 0! which is defined as 0! = 1

So we have 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 720 different possibilities.

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