Suppose that a “word” is any string of five letters. Repeated letters are allowed. For our purposes, vowels are the letters a, e, i, o, and u. Please include detailed steps for this problem so I can understand.  a) How many words are there? Note – these don’t have to be valid English words. b) How many words begin with a vowel? c) How many words have only vowels?

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Suppose that a “word” is any string of five letters. Repeated letters are allowed. For our
purposes, vowels are the letters a, e, i, o, and u.

Please include detailed steps for this problem so I can understand. 


a) How many words are there? Note – these don’t have to be valid English words.
b) How many words begin with a vowel?
c) How many words have only vowels?
d) How many words have no vowels?
e) How many words have exactly one vowel? 

 

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