Normal approximations for descents and inversions of permutations of the set {1, 2, . . . , n} are well known. We consider the number of inversions of a permutation π(1), π(2), . . . , π(n) of a multiset with n elements, which is the number of pairs (i, j) with 1 ≤ i < j ≤ n and π(i) > π(j). The number of descents is the number of i in the range 1 ≤ i < n such that π(i) > π(i + 1). We prove tha...