the letters d, g, i, i, and t can be used to form 5-letter strings such as digit or dgiit. using these letters, how many 5-letter strings can be formed in which the two occurrences of the letter i are separated by at least one other letter?



Answer :

36 number of ways to set out the letters without the i's together.

Order of the letters matters, so, this is a permutation problem.

Now we will determine in how many ways we can arrange these letters.

There are 2 repeating i's, so, we can arrange the letters:

5!/2! = 120/2

= 60 ways.

We also have the following equation:

60 = (number of ways to arrange the letters with the i's together) + (number of ways without the i's together).

To find the no. of ways to set out the letters with the i's together.

We have: [i-i] [d] [g] [t]

We see that with the i's together, we have:

4! = 24 ways to arrange the letters.

Thus, the number of ways to set out the letters without the i's together is:

60 – 24 = 36.

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