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Write a loop that displays all possible combinations of two letters where the letters are 'a', or 'b', or 'c', or 'd', or 'e'. the combinations should be displayed in ascending alphabetical order: aa ab ac ad ae ba bb ... ee this has to run in "my programming lab"

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Final answer:

To display all possible combinations of two letters in ascending alphabetical order, use nested loops.

Step-by-step explanation:

To display all possible combinations of two letters in ascending alphabetical order, you can use nested loops. Here is an example loop in Python:



letters = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

for i in range(len(letters)):
for j in range(len(letters)):
print(letters[i] + letters[j])



In this loop, we iterate over the 'letters' list twice, combining each element with every other element to create the combinations. The resulting combinations are then printed out.

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