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Investigate the number of different arrangements of letters in a word.  

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? In my investigation I am going to investigate the number of different arrangements of letters in a word. - The possible arrangements for the word "Emma" are: emma, emam, eamm, mmae,mmea, meam, mema, mame,maem, amme, amem and aemm. - I found out that there are 12 possibilities and there are there are letters 2 identical and 2 different,what if they were all different like Esam? the possible arrangements for Esam: esam, same, ames, easa, esma, saem, amse, maes,easm, seam, asem, msea, eame, sema, asme, msae, emsa, same, aems, meas, emas, smea, aesm and mesa ? There are 24 different possibilities in this arrangement of 4 letters all letters are different. I have noticed that with Esam there are 6 possibilities beginning with each different letter. For example there are 6 arrangements with Esam beginning with "e", and 6 beginning with "a" and so on then 6 ( The arrangements) X 4 (the amount...

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