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Permutation with Repeated

Elements
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In how many ways can 7 friends be seated in a row if 3 of them insist of
sitting next to each other?
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In how many ways can a president, secretary, treasurer and auditor be
chosen from 9 candidates?
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In how many ways can a photographer arrange 10 students and a
teacher in a row for a photograph if:

a. The teacher is in the rightmost part of the picture?


b. Five of the students insist of being together?
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• In how many ways can the letters of the word “pop” be arranged to
form another word?
The number of ways “n” things can be arranged given that there are
repeated elements is given by:

Where “n” is the total number of objects and “k” is the number of
times each object is being repeated.
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• In how many ways can the letters of the word “tomato” be arranged
to form another word?
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• In how many ways can the letters of the word “Philippines” be
arranged to form another word?
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• In how many ways can the letters of the word “mississippi” be
arranged to form another word?
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• In how many ways can 3 identical Math books, 4 identical science
books and 5 identical English books in a shelf?
Seatwork:
p.263 1(a – j) and p.267 (1 – 5)

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