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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Please Help? In the standard game of Scrabble, there are 42 vowel-letter tiles, 56 consonant-letter tiles, and 2 blank tiles. a. A player draws one letter tile. Find the probability that it is a vowel. Express your answer as both a fraction in lowest terms and a decimal to the nearest thousandth. b. At the end of his turn, a player draws four tiles. Find the probability that all of the tiles are vowels. Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest thousandth.

OpenStudy (ash2326):

How many tiles are there totally? @sarah_hendrix7

OpenStudy (anonymous):

100

OpenStudy (ash2326):

How many vowel tiles are there?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

42

OpenStudy (ash2326):

So probability of drawing a vowel tile \[\frac{no. of favourable\ tiles}{total\ tiles}=\frac{42}{100}\]

OpenStudy (ash2326):

Can you reduce it to the lowest terms ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

21/50

OpenStudy (ash2326):

good :) Did you get it??

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yes

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Thanks (:

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