Joe wants to find all the four-letter words that begin and end with different letters. How many combinations of letters satisfy this property?
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Assuming that letters can be repeated....we can choose any of the 26 letters for the first three places and any of the remaining 25 for the last one
So
26^3 * 25 = 439400