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The daily paper features a word puzzle called "Jumble," in which the letters of a common word are scrambled. For example, the jumbled word might be HARNC. The player's job is to find the original word. Some people are quite quick at this, but if you are not, you might consider a "brute force" solution: write down all the possible permutations of the five given letters. Just one of these will be a real word, and that's the solution to the puzzle. How many permutations are there?
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The daily paper features a word puzzle called "Jumble," in which the letters of a common word are scrambled. For example, the jumbled word might be HARNC. The player's job is to find the original word. Some people are quite quick at this, but if you are not, you might consider a "brute force" solution: write down all the possible permutations of the five given letters. Just one of these will be a real word, and that's the solution to the puzzle. How many permutations are there?
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