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Find the number of permutations of the word COLLABORATION.

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The word "COLLABORATION" has 13 letters with the following letter count.

C - 1

O - 3

L - 2

A - 2

B - 1

R - 1

T - 1

I - 1

N - 1

The formula for finding permutation with repeated elements is


\begin{gathered} P=(n!)/(n_1!\cdot n_2!\cdots n_i!) \\ \text{where} \\ n\text{ is the number of elements} \\ n_i\text{ are the number of count for each element} \end{gathered}

Using the above given, since there are 13 letters, which is a total of 13 elements, and for each element we have


P=\frac{13!}{1!\cdot3!\operatorname{\cdot}2!\operatorname{\cdot}2!\operatorname{\cdot}1!\operatorname{\cdot}1!\operatorname{\cdot}1!\operatorname{\cdot}1!\operatorname{\cdot}1!}

Since 1! = 1, then we can simplify it as


\begin{gathered} P=\frac{13!}{3!\operatorname{\cdot}2!\operatorname{\cdot}2!} \\ P=\frac{6227020800}{6\operatorname{\cdot}2\operatorname{\cdot}2} \\ P=(6,227,020,800)/(24) \\ P=259459200 \end{gathered}

Therefore, the number of permutations of the word "COLLABORATION" is 259,459,200.

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