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(Identical items)
What if some items are identical? Example: arrange the letters of AABBCC.
If all 6 letters were distinct, you'd have 6! = 720 arrangements. But swapping the two A's doesn't create a new arrangement.
You need to divide out the duplicate arrangements caused by identical items.
