In how many ways can the letters in the word "school" be arranged

I'm struggling.
The answer is 360 but I have no idea how to do this.

There are 6 letters in the word "school" but "o" is repeated twice. so to account for that, the equation goes as follows:

6! / 2!
= (6x5x4x3x2x1) / (2x1) ...then the 2 and 1 cancel out
= 6x5x4x3
= 360

:) hope that helped, if you need to know more about combinations/permutations lemme know

school ---> 6 letters, 2 occurrences of 'o', 1 occurrence of each remaining 4 letters

Number of ways to arrange letters in school: 6! / (2! * 1! * 1! * 1! * 1!) = 6!/2! = 360

Each factorial in denominator corresponds to occurrences of each letter in the word. Of course we can leave out factorials for letters that occur just once.

For example the word "MISSISSIPPI" has 11 letters, with1 M, 4 I's, 4 S's, 2P's
So the number of ways the letters in MISSISSIPPI can be arranged is:
11! / (4! * 4! * 2!) = 34,650

I the answer is 36. I think you messed up. Think about it. There are 6 letters in school. So and there are six different places you can put each letter. 6*6 is 36 not 360.