Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the given letters "AAABBBCC". Your answer is:
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If all the letters were distinct, we would have 8 letters in total. The number of permutations of these 8 distinct letters would be 8!. However, in this case, we have repeating letters. Specifically, we have 3 A's, 3 B's, and 2 C's. To account for the Show more…
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