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.

A. 10.00%
B. 15.35%
C. 17.82%
D. 18.20%
E. 20.00%

Answer 1

B?

Answer 2

First, can you tell me the number of e's and the total number of letters?

Answer 3

18 E's

Answer 4

And the rest, including the e's?

Answer 5

all right. 18 e's, out of how many letters total (not including spaces, etc.)?

Answer 6

101?

Answer 7

@DangerousJesse @mathmale

Answer 8

Sorry, had to run it through Python. 101 is correct :)

Answer 9

Solve\18\div101\]Then move the decimal over two spaces to the right.

Answer 10

-_- \[\large\18\div101\]

Answer 11

Not fixing it.

Answer 12

17.82?

Answer 13

Yep :)

Answer 14

If you have 18 letter e's out of 100 letters total, then the prob. of drawing an 'e' is just 18/101. You could leave this answer as is or find the decimal fraction equivalent.

Answer 15

Yeah, the question is asking for the percentage :)

Answer 16

ty :)