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Find out how many different arrangements of letters there are in a name or word.  

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EMMA'S DILEMMA In this piece of coursework, I am going to find out how many different arrangements of letters there are in a name or word (according to the number of letters). I will then try to find a pattern in the arrangements that will help me to form an equation. I will also try to find out how many different arrangements there are in a word with two or more sets of different letters that occur more than once. E.g. Xxyyaa .I know this sounds very confusing but you'll soon understand what I'm talking about. By the end of this piece of course work, I should be able to find out how many arrangements there are in XXXYYVVVV by using an equation. 1) My first name will be EMMA: 1)EMMA 2)AMME 3)MMEA 4)MEAM 5)EAMM 6)EMAM 7)AMEM 8)AEMM 9)MAEM 10)MMAE 11)MEMA 12)MAME I have concluded that there are 12 different arrangements in this name. I used various methods to find out the different arrangements: I...

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