Final answer:
Option B. The word 'mama' can be arranged in 6 different ways, considering the repetitions of letters 'm' and 'a'.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question requires finding the number of different ways the letters in the word "mama" can be arranged. This is a permutations problem with repeated elements. Since "mama" consists of four letters where 'm' appears twice and 'a' appears twice, the number of unique permutations can be calculated using the formula for permutations of a multiset: 4! / (2! * 2!) which equals 6. Therefore, the correct answer is B) 6.
To find the number of different ways the letters 'mama' can be arranged, we can use the concept of permutations. In this case, since all the letters are the same, we need to consider the repetition of letters. There are 4 total letters in 'mama'. The number of different ways the letters can be arranged is given by 4! (four-factorial), which is equal to 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24.