Use the table to figure out how many feet of each decoration you need to buy. Green
Total
Orange
51/4 feet
Ribbon
12 2/3 feet
Streamers
8 2/5 feet
7.1/3 feet
6 8/9 feet
15 1/3 feet
Flags
Lights
3 1/2 feet
7 3/4 feet

there is only one way to arrange all the eight relative to each other because they are not distinct. we have

now there are nine places to place an (and not more than one in one place).   because we have four symbols, we need to choose four of these nine places to insert an . order does not matter because the are not distinct.

thus there are 1 · c(9,4) ways, or, if we calculate it,

thus there are 126 ways to form such "words."

the answer is no solution, glad i could .