Ain't I too small to create my own dictionary
Probability
Level
3
Let's say you are the head of a linguistic society and wish to arrange words formed by using all the letters of the word "HONEY" in alphabeticalorder.
now in which position does the word "HONEY" occur?
The answer is 39.
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1 solution
To get the number of words starting with E , we fix E at the extreme left position, then rearrange remaining four letters taken all at a time.
Hence, number of words starting with E = 4! = 24
Then starting with HE , number of words = 3! = 6
Then starting with HN ,number of words = 3! = 6
Then starting with HOE ,number of words = 2! = 2
Then next word will be HONEY , which is 39th word.