Question

What are the odds of picking an "s" in the word Mississippi?
Answers:

4 : 11

4 : 10

4 : 5

4 : 7

Answer 1

@AravindG

Answer 2

4:11

Answer 3

Count up the number of possible favorable outcomes (in this case, "s" characters in "Mississippi") and divide by the number of possible outcomes (number of characters in "Mississippi"). That's your probability or odds...