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How many unique ways are there to arrange the letters in a word OPAL.

User Midhun MP
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Answer:

i think 24 beacuse opal has 4 letters and then u mutiply it by 6 and get 24

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User Reub
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Answer:

24.

Explanation:

We can use the factorial function to find the number of unique arrangements in a word.

There are 4 unique characters in 'OPAL'. As such, 4! = 24.

In the case that there were repeating characters, such as 'OPALA', then we would divide by the factorial of the number of repeating letters. That looks something like this:


(5!)/(2!) = 60

Hope this helped.

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