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OpenStudy (anonymous):

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. a 10.00% b 15.35% c 17.82% d 18.20% e 20.00%

OpenStudy (welshfella):

count the number of e's in the text. Also count the total number of all the letters.

OpenStudy (welshfella):

the probability = number of e's * 100 ------------------- total number of letters

OpenStudy (welshfella):

oh! it says it appears 18 times So take that number

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I got c.

OpenStudy (welshfella):

yea 18 / 101 i agree

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Thanks.

OpenStudy (welshfella):

* 100 = 17.82 %

OpenStudy (welshfella):

yw

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