plz solve

• Mar 6th 2006, 08:30 PM
bharathlece
plz solve
4)In an island there r tribals who speak lang of atmost 4 words.Lang consists of 4 alphabets.How many words can be formed in that language?
• Mar 6th 2006, 08:47 PM
CaptainBlack
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Originally Posted by bharathlece
4)In an island there r tribals who speak lang of atmost 4 words.Lang consists of 4 alphabets.How many words can be formed in that language?

Do you mean the language has an alphabet of 4 letters, or that there are four
distinct alphabets of say 26 letters?

RonL
• Mar 6th 2006, 10:07 PM
bharathlece
4)In an island there r tribals who speak lang of atmost 4 words.Lang consists of 4 alphabets.How many words can be formed in that language?

ya, their language has only 4 distinct alphabets say a,b,c,d.
• Mar 7th 2006, 01:20 PM
ThePerfectHacker
Quote:

Originally Posted by bharathlece
4)In an island there r tribals who speak lang of atmost 4 words.Lang consists of 4 alphabets.How many words can be formed in that language?

ya, their language has only 4 distinct alphabets say a,b,c,d.

Using all 4 we have,
$4^4=256$
Using 3 we have,
$4^4=64$
Using 2 we have,
$4^2=16$
Using 1 we have,
$4^1=4$
Thus, in total we have 340
• Mar 7th 2006, 07:41 PM
bharathlece
plz , say me how u solved it
ya, the answer is right but i didnt understand the procedure how u solved.