If the different permutations of all the letter of the word EXAMINATION are listed as in a dictionary,

Question:

If the different permutations of all the letter of the word EXAMINATION are listed as in a dictionary, how many words are there in this list before the first word starting with E?

Solution:

In the given word EXAMINATION, there are 11 letters out of which, A, I, and N appear 2 times and all the other letters appear only once.

The words that will be listed before the words starting with E in a dictionary will be the words that start with A only.

Therefore, to get the number of words starting with A, the letter A is fixed at the extreme left position, and then the remaining 10 letters taken all at a time are rearranged.

Since there are 2 Is and 2 Ns in the remaining 10 letters,

Number of words starting with $\mathrm{A}=\frac{10 !}{2 ! 2 !}=907200$

Thus, the required numbers of words is 907200.

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