Emma's Dilemma
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Emma's Dilemma Emma and Lucy are playing with arrangements of the letters of their names. Part 1 Investigate the number of different arrangements of the letters of Lucy's name. Part 2 Investigate the number of different arrangements of the letters of Emma's name. Part 3 Investigate the number of different arrangements of various groups of letters. Emma's Dilemma Emma and Lucy were playing with arrangements of the letters of their names. Part 1 My first task was to investigate the number of different arrangements for the letters in Lucy's name. I began by listing the arrangements, one by one, following a certain structure (a structure which will hereafter be used in similar situations throughout the rest of this investigation). This started with me dividing the name "Lucy" up into its individual parts i.e. the letters L, U, C and Y. By re-arranging these, I was then able to find new arrangements. Starting with LUCY (obviously), I moved on to find LUYC...


