Question

Find the experimental probability of getting the letter e when a letter is drawn at random from this text:

In English, the letter e appears most frequently among alphabetical characters. In these lines, it appears eighteen times.

Note: Exclude spaces and punctuation marks from your analysis.

Answer 1

10.00%
15.35%
17.82%
18.20%
20.00%

Answer 2

You need to count the number of times that e appears in the text. Next count the total number of all the letters in the text, including e's.
The required experimental probability is given by:
\[\frac{number\ of\ e's}{total\ number\ of\ letters}\]

Answer 3

So it's 101 and 18?

Answer 4

18 over 101?

Answer 5

Yes, your answer is correct! Good work.