INTERMEDIATE : Not talking about Level. Part-VI

I N T E R M E D I A T E \huge INTERMEDIATE How many words can be made with the letters of the word I N T E R M E D I A T E INTERMEDIATE if the order of vowels doesn't change ?

The "order of the vowels" refers to the sequence in which they occur. IE the sequence should be I E E I A E I - E - E - I - A - E .


The answer is 332640.

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5 solutions

Anis Abboud
Apr 2, 2015

The order of vowels doesn't change => there's only one order => it's as if they were all replaced by one letter, V. So we have 12 letters, out of which 6 are V and 2 are T. 12 ! 6 ! 2 ! = 332640 \dfrac{12!}{6! \cdot 2!} = 332640

Nice way to simplify the problem!

Pawan Kumar - 6 years, 2 months ago

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Thanks, Pawan!

Anis Abboud - 6 years, 2 months ago

wow ! very nice and smart solution . Thank you.

Shohag Hossen - 5 years, 11 months ago

Ah... Very nice! I like the V substitution!

Geoff Pilling - 5 years, 2 months ago

I thought of this method, but isn't this wrong?

If you group the vowels together and consider them to be a single variable, doesn't that mean there cannot be any letters within the group?

Meaning, the order is I E E I A__E is substituted by V and then this is considered one letter. So words like "V"NTRTDM and NTR"V"TDM are coming under your solution but, words like

I E NTRTDM E I A E is not.

Brandon Schneider - 5 years, 1 month ago

Your answer is totally wrong reason stated in above comment

Priti Tanwar - 1 year, 10 months ago

Vowels should be in relative order IEEIAE in the word formed . (We can insert any number of consonants between them). There are 12 places to be filled by letters. Number of ways to choose 6 places = 12!/6!6! These 6 places can be filled in only one way that is the order given. The remaining 6 places can be filled in by consonants in 6!/2! ways (as there are two Ts) So total number of ways = 12!6!/6!6!2! That is equal to 332640.😁

Wow!Quite simple a method.Thanx!

Adarsh Kumar - 6 years, 2 months ago

Very good attempt

Priti Tanwar - 1 year, 10 months ago
Rushikesh Joshi
Apr 2, 2015

Solve using probability. Consider vowels, IEEIAE,number of arrangements is 60(6!÷2!÷3!). probability of this arrangement is 1÷60. So answer is 1÷60×total permutations. That is 1÷60*19958400

@Kalash Verma how did you solve it?Please tell.

Adarsh Kumar - 6 years, 2 months ago

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@Adarsh Kumar I have posted a solution you can see to it.😎

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 2 months ago

Awesome method!!

Adarsh Kumar - 6 years, 2 months ago

Fantastic solution. Go ahead .

Shohag Hossen - 5 years, 11 months ago

Applying the Vandermonde Recursion identity. (n - i)C(r - i -1 ).where i is the place values of the vowels.

Stuuuuupid

Magnas Bera - 1 year, 12 months ago

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sorry! stupid who?

nibedan mukherjee - 1 year, 11 months ago
Anthony Lamanna
Jan 7, 2021

I first did the problem thinking it meant that not all letters had to be included but all the vowels did in their relative places and came up with a sum which multiplies the number of ways that the 6 vowels could be placed amongst the 6 + n 6+n letters by the number of unique permutations of n n consonants, accounting for the presence of 2 T's: n = 0 6 ( 6 + n ) ! n ! 6 ! ( 5 ! ( 5 n ) ! + ( n 2 ) 4 ! ( 6 n ) ! ) = 545952 \sum\limits_{n=0}^6 \frac {(6+n)!}{n! 6!} \left( \frac {5!}{(5-n)!} + \binom {n}{2} \frac {4!}{(6-n)!} \right) = 545952

If the problem is instead to use all of the letters, we instead simply have to choose the spots for the 6 vowels within the 12 letters and then multiply by the number of unique permutations of the consonants, instead giving an answer of: ( 12 6 ) 6 ! 2 ! = 332640 \binom {12}{6} \cdot \frac {6!}{2!} = 332640

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