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In how many ways can the letters of the word SANFOUNDRY be rearranged such that the vowels always appear together?(a) \(\frac{(8 + 3)!}{2!}\)(b) \(\frac{6!}{2!}\)(c) 8!*3!(d) \(\frac{4!}{8!}\)This question was addressed to me during a job interview.This intriguing question comes from Counting topic in portion Counting of Discrete Mathematics

Answer» RIGHT option is (c) 8!*3!

Best explanation: Take AOU together and treat it LIKE 1 entity and arrange SNFNDRY in 8! Ways. Then, the AOU can be arranged in 3! ways. So, TOTAL arrangements = 8! * 3! = 40320 * 6 = 241920.


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