janice,tom, john and tamira are trying to decide on who will make dinner and who will wash the dishes afterwards. they randomly pull two names out of a hat to decide, where the first name drawn will make dinner and the second will do the dishes. determine the probability that the two people pulled will have first names beginning with the same letter. assume the same person cannot be picked for both.

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anonymous · Answer

similar to the last one
pull 2 out of 4 names out of a hat, there are only 6 possibilities
janice,tom
janice, john
janice, tamira
tom, john
tom tamira
john tamira

anonymous · Answer

of these, how many have two names that begin with the first same letter?

anonymous · Answer

thank you!!

anonymous · Answer

yw
did you get $\frac{2}{6}=\frac{1}{3}$ ?

anonymous · Answer

yes, i did! youre the best!