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How many words with or without meaning each of three vowels and two consonants can be formed from the letters of the word INVOLUTE.

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In the word INVOLUTE, there are 4 vowels, namely, I,O,E,U and 4 cónsonants, namely, `N, V, L` and `T`
The number of ways of selecting 3 yowels out of `4= ^4 C_3=4`
The number of ways of selecting 2 consonanits out of `4= ^4 C_2=6`
Therefore, the number of combinations of 3 vowels and 2 consonants is `4 xx 6=24`
Now, each of these 24 combinations has 5 letters which cạn be.arranged among themselves in `5 !` ways.
Therefore, the required number of different words is `24 xx 5 !=2880`.
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