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OpenStudy (anonymous):

You want to make five-letter codes that use the letters A, F, E, R, and M without repeating any letter. What is the probability that a randomly chosen code starts with A?

OpenStudy (jingle535):

Lets start with this question, How many different possibilities are there for the first letter?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

5?

OpenStudy (jingle535):

Correct, how many of those 5 chances are an A?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

1........... yea, 1/5 are a

OpenStudy (jingle535):

Thats your answer :) the "without repeating any letter" is just a trick.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

it was wrong haha but thanks for trying xD

OpenStudy (jingle535):

If that was all of the question it had to be right, there was nothing to make any letter more common than another letter

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