Question

This was just an odd question to me. each different letter of the word "average" is written on a card and placed in a hat. One card is drawn from the hat. How many possible outcomes are there for this experiment?

Answer 1

so you have to take all the letters from the hat?

Answer 2

so 7 would be all letters

Answer 3

each DIFFERENT letter, so only a-v-e-r-g, no?

Answer 4

5 different outcomes I mean

Answer 5

Let me retype that

Answer 6

ok i get u now

Answer 7

I think what they mean is that there are 5 letters written in 5 cards. I said 5 because the letter a is repeated twice and they want different letters. This means that there are 5 possible outcomes, and if one card is drawn out, 1/5.

Answer 8

Also e is repeated.

Answer 9

if you have take all 5 letters and you want to know the number of possible permutations (orders), you do it like this:
5! (5*4*3*2*1)
which is 120

Answer 10

I'm pretty sure I understand this now... like what about the word percent like in the same type of question i just asked wouldn't that be 5 too

Answer 11

or 6

Answer 12

'percnt'

Answer 13

Yeah 6

Answer 14

You might want to do what Fallontine did though.

Answer 15

There would only be five cards placed into the hat because the letter "e and a" repeat.
1/5= 20%