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In how many different ways can all the letters of the word zookeeper be arranged?

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The 9! ways of arranging the letters in ZOOKEEPER have to be divided by 2! and 3! the reason being that having fixed the positions of the non-repeated letters, the O's may be arranged in 2! ways and the E's in 3! ways without making a different word:

(9!)/(2!3!)=30240
The answer is: 30,240 ways.
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An infinite amount seeing as you can have infinite of each number
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