a. In how many ways can the letters in the word CARLETON be arranged so that it contains either CA or AC as sub-words?

Brennan Flores

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2020-10-28

a. In how many ways can the letters in the word CARLETON be arranged so that it contains either CA or AC as sub-words?

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Jayden-James Duffy

Jayden-James Duffy

Skilled2020-10-29Added 91 answers

The word CARLETON have 8 letters. We want to arranged this word so that it contains either CA of AC as sub-words.
The letters C and A can be grouped and considered as a single letter. that is, (CA)RLETON.
Hence we can assume total letters as 1+6=7 and all are different. Number of ways to arrange these letters is 7!=5040. Now, CA or AC can be arranged themselves in 2!=2ways, Therefore, the total number of arrangements is 5040×2=10080
Thus, the total number of arranged so that the word contains either CA or AC as sub-words are 10080.

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