Emmas dilemma.
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Arrangements for EMMA: EMMA EMAM EAMM MMAE MMEA MEAM MEMA MAME MAEM AMME AMEM AEMM Arrangements for MIKE MIKE MIEK MKEI MKIE MEIK MEKI IKEM IKME IEMK IEKM IMEK IMKE KEMI KEIM KIME KIEM KMEI KMIE EMIK EMKI EKMI EKIM EIMK EIKM If I choose a word where all of the letters are different there will be more combinations. There were 24 different possibilities in the arrangement of 4 letters that are all different. That is twice as many as EMMA, which has four letters and 2 the same. I have noticed that with MIKE there were 6 possibilities beginning with each different letter. For instance there are 6 arrangements with MIKE beginning with M, and 6 beginning with I and so on. 6 X 4 (the amount of letters) gives 24, the number 6 may have come from 1 x 2 x 3, the number of letters, and multiplied by four because that is how many numbers there are all together. The difference between how many combinations of the names EMMA and MIKE is the double M in EMMA. There are 24 possible combinations for MIKE and 12...


