Question

Most of the state names in the United States ends in a vowel (a,e,i,o,u). Of the 50 states, 25 of the state names ends in either an a or an e and 6 ends in either an I or an o. If none of the states ends with an u, what is the fraction of state names that end in a vowel. Show your work.

Answer 1

How many of the 50 end in a vowel?

Answer 2

25

Answer 3

1/2

Answer 4

are i and o vowels? did you count them too?