Question

If the different permutations of all the letter of the word EXAMINATION are listed as in a dictionary, how many words are there in this list before the first word starting with E?

Answer 1

In the given word EXAMINATION, there are 11 letters out of which, A, I, and N appear 2 times and all the other letters appear only once. 

The words that will be listed before the words starting with E in a dictionary will be the words that start with A only. 

Therefore, to get the number of words starting with A, the letter A is fixed at the extreme left position, and then the remaining 10 letters taken all at a time are rearranged. Since there are 2 Is and 2 Ns in the remaining 10 letters, 

Number of words starting with A=10!/2!2!=907200

Thus, the required numbers of words is 907200.