The English alphabet has 5 vowels and 21 consonants. How many words with two different vowels and 2 different consonants can be formed from the alphabet?
The English alphabet has 5 vowels and 21 consonants. How many words with two different vowels and 2 different consonants can be formed from the alphabet?

We know that there are $5$ vowels and $21$ consonants in English alphabets.

Choosing two vowels out of $5$ would be done in \[^{5}{{C}_{2}}\] ways

Choosing $2$ consonants out of $21$ can be done in \[^{21}{{C}_{2}}\] ways

The total number of ways selecting $2$ vowels and $2$ consonants

\[^{5}{{C}_{2}}~\times {{~}^{21}}{{C}_{2}}\]

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Each of these four letters can be arranged in four ways \[^{4}{{P}_{4}}\]

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Total numbers of words that can be formed are

\[24\text{ }\times \text{ }2100\text{ }=\text{ }50400\]