How many three letter words can be made using the letters of the word 'ORIENTAL'?

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Solution

The word ORIENTAL consists of 8 letters. In order to make three letter words, we need to permute these 8 letters, taken three at a time.
⇒ ⁸P₃ = 8 $\times$ 7 $\times$ 6 = 336

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