Question

Find the total number of ways of selecting five letters from the letters of the word INDEPENDENT.

Answer 1

Since we are talking about a  five letters from a total of 11 letters. We need to calculate the combination 
11C 5 = 462 ways
∴ The total numbers of ways of selecting five letters from the letters of the word  "INDEPENDENT" is 462 ways.

Answer 2

Total number of letters in a word INDEPENDENT are 11.
we have to select 5 words from them l , So number of ways of selecting 5 letter from word are 11C5.