Question

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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.

Answer 1

How many tiles are there totally? @sarah_hendrix7

Answer 2

100

Answer 3

How many vowel tiles are there?

Answer 4

42

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

Can you reduce it to the lowest terms ?

Answer 7

21/50

Answer 8

good :) Did you get it??

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

Thanks (: