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well i tried ;
total no. of possible arrangements of the given word MINUS the arrangements where all the vowels are together but landed at almost 4 times the correct answer.
still wondering why????
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Because you subtracted the wrong set of cases. “All vowels together” removes only the arrangements where all 4 vowels form one block, but the restriction says even one adjacent pair of vowels is not allowed, so many bad arrangements still remain.
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Because you subtracted the wrong set of cases. “All vowels together” removes only the arrangements where all 4 vowels form one block, but the restriction says even one adjacent pair of vowels is not allowed, so many bad arrangements still remain.
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