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Permutations with Some Identical Elements

Permutations with Some Identical Elements. Sometimes you will deal with permutations in which some items are identical. Example How many different ways can you rewrite the word Like?. LIKE LIEK LKIE LKEI LEIK LEKI ILKE ILEK IELK IEKL IKLE IKEL

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Permutations with Some Identical Elements

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  1. Permutations with Some Identical Elements

  2. Sometimes you will deal with permutations in which some items are identical. Example How many different ways can you rewrite the word Like? LIKE LIEK LKIE LKEI LEIK LEKI ILKE ILEK IELK IEKL IKLE IKEL KLIE KLEI KILE KIEL KELI KEIL ELIK ELKI EILK EIKL EKLI EKIL Therefore there are 24 different permutations 4P4= 4! (Four spots with four different choices)

  3. Try it with the word FALL Keep track of the common letters by using L1 and L2 If the two L’s trade places, there are 2P2 = 2! ways that they can be arranged. Therefore the total number of ways that the letters can be arranged is now expressed as 4! / 2! = 24 / 2 = 12  Divide the total number of permutations by the number of ways that you can arrange the identical letters

  4. Try it with the word SISS From previous knowledge we can see that we take 4! / 3! Since 3! Is the number of ways that the S can be arranged. = 24 / 6 = 4 The number of permutations of a set of n items of which a are identical is n! / a!

  5. Example 2 Scott is a brick layer and wants to create a pattern on the side of a house. How many patterns could he make if he uses 5 red bricks, and one each of grey, white, green, and black?  total number of bricks = 9  this becomes ‘n’ and a = 5 (identical bricks) 9! / 5! = 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 = 3024 patterns

  6. Arrange the word ‘bookkeeper’ There are a total of 10 letters to choose from  10! choices if we didn’t care about the double/triple letters 10! / 2!2!3!  since there are 3 e’s, 2 0’s, 2 k’s for a set of n objects containing a identical elements, b identical objects, c identical objects, there are permutations.

  7. Example, Shawna is looking at all of her cars in the driveway. She has 3 mustangs, 2 motorcycles, 4 corvettes and 3 porsche’s. In how many ways can she arrange her cars? There are 12 cars in total, 12! / (3!2!4!3!) = 277200 Homework Pg 245 # 2,4ac, 7, 8a, 10, 12

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