English

How Many Words, with Or Without Meaning, Can Be Formed by Using the Letters of the Word 'Triangle'?

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

How many words, with or without meaning, can be formed by using the letters of the word 'TRIANGLE'?

Advertisements

Solution

There are 8 letters in the word TRIANGLE.
∴ Number of 8 letter words = Number of arrangements of 8 letters, taken 8 at a time
8P8 = 8!

shaalaa.com
Factorial N (N!) Permutations and Combinations
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 16: Permutations - Exercise 16.3 [Page 28]

APPEARS IN

R.D. Sharma Mathematics [English] Class 11
Chapter 16 Permutations
Exercise 16.3 | Q 22 | Page 28

RELATED QUESTIONS

Convert the following products into factorials: 

(n + 1) (n + 2) (n + 3) ... (2n)


Prove that: n! (n + 2) = n! + (n + 1)!


If (n + 1)! = 90 [(n − 1)!], find n.


Prove that: 

\[\frac{n!}{(n - r)!}\] = n (n − 1) (n − 2) ... (n − (r − 1))

If P (5, r) = P (6, r − 1), find r ?


If 5 P(4, n) = 6. P (5, n − 1), find n ?


Prove that:1 . P (1, 1) + 2 . P (2, 2) + 3 . P (3, 3) + ... + n . P (nn) = P (n + 1, n + 1) − 1.


If P (15, r − 1) : P (16, r − 2) = 3 : 4, find r.


In how many ways can five children stand in a queue?


Four letters E, K, S and V, one in each, were purchased from a plastic warehouse. How many ordered pairs of letters, to be used as initials, can be formed from them?


How many three-digit numbers are there, with distinct digits, with each digit odd?


How many words, with or without meaning, can be formed by using all the letters of the word 'DELHI', using each letter exactly once?


There are 6 items in column A and 6 items in column B. A student is asked to match each item in column A with an item in column B. How many possible, correct or incorrect, answers are there to this question?


How many three-digit numbers are there, with no digit repeated?


All the letters of the word 'EAMCOT' are arranged in different possible ways. Find the number of arrangements in which no two vowels are adjacent to each other.


In how many ways can the letters of the word 'STRANGE' be arranged so that

the vowels occupy only the odd places?


How many words can be formed from the letters of the word 'SUNDAY'? How many of these begin with D?


How many words can be formed out of the letters of the word, 'ORIENTAL', so that the vowels always occupy the odd places?


How many different words can be formed from the letters of the word 'GANESHPURI'? In how many of these words:

the vowels are always together?


How many permutations can be formed by the letters of the word, 'VOWELS', when

there is no restriction on letters?


Find the number of words formed by permuting all the letters of the following words:
INDEPENDENCE


Find the number of words formed by permuting all the letters of the following words:

PAKISTAN


Find the total number of arrangements of the letters in the expression a3 b2 c4 when written at full length.


In how many ways can the letters of the word 'ARRANGE' be arranged so that the two R's are never together?


How many different numbers, greater than 50000 can be formed with the digits 0, 1, 1, 5, 9.


Find the number of numbers, greater than a million, that can be formed with the digits 2, 3, 0, 3, 4, 2, 3.


Prove that: 4nC2n : 2nCn = [1 · 3 · 5 ... (4n − 1)] : [1 · 3 · 5 ... (2n − 1)]2.


Evaluate

\[^ {20}{}{C}_5 + \sum^5_{r = 2} {}^{25 - r} C_4\]

Let r and n be positive integers such that 1 ≤ r ≤ n. Then prove the following:
n · n − 1Cr − 1 = (n − r + 1) nCr − 1


Let r and n be positive integers such that 1 ≤ r ≤ n. Then prove the following:

\[\frac{^{n}{}{C}_r}{^{n - 1}{}{C}_{r - 1}} = \frac{n}{r}\]

There are 10 persons named\[P_1 , P_2 , P_3 , . . . . , P_{10}\]
Out of 10 persons, 5 persons are to be arranged in a line such that in each arrangement P1 must occur whereas P4 and P5 do not occur. Find the number of such possible arrangements.


Find the number of permutations of n different things taken r at a time such that two specified things occur together?


Write the number of ways in which 5 red and 4 white balls can be drawn from a bag containing 10 red and 8 white balls.


Write the total number of words formed by 2 vowels and 3 consonants taken from 4 vowels and 5 consonants.


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×