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there is only one way to arrange all the eight relative to each other because they are not distinct. we have

now there are nine places to place an (and not more than one in one place).   because we have four symbols, we need to choose four of these nine places to insert an . order does not matter because the are not distinct.

thus there are 1 · c(9,4) ways, or, if we calculate it,

thus there are 126 ways to form such "words."

lol! it is not weird, because that is how i feel when i get to know that there is a lot of people in one area or website at one time. i always want to make new friends! even if they are online friends.

43

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not sure if this is supposed to be a trick question. 43 is the only one that makes any sense.