Professor Grinch's telephone number

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Professor Grinch's telephone number is 6328363. Mickey remembers the collection of digits but not their order, expect that he knows the first 6 is before the first 3. How many arrangements of these digits with this constraint are there?

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There are $7$ digits, and of the $7!$ permutations, $2/5$ of the permutations have $6$ come before $3$. Furthermore, with two $6$'s and three $3$'s, the permutation overcounts the arrangements by $2!\cdot3!$ times.

So providing I didn't make a mistake, we have

$$\frac{2\cdot7!}{5\cdot2!\cdot3!}=168$$