The number of ways in which all the letters of the word HUSSEY be arranged so that two S are never together is

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There are four letter other than S so arrange them in $4!$ ways. There are 5 spaces for S to be placed in ${}^5{C}_2$ ways.
Hence number of ways is ${=}^5{C}_2\times 4!=240$