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wSubmit your answer as an exact fraction or a decimal rounded to thehundredths place.You're a player in a video game and have theoption to choose from 5 character options (elf,dwarf, human, ranger, wizard) and 4 weaponsoptions (axe, shield, spear, staff).What is the probability that you will not be aelf or use a axe?Show your work here

User Adrian Shum
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we know that

5 character options and 4 weapons options

so

Total outcomes =5*4=20

step 1

Not be an ef

P=16/20

step 2

use an axe

P=5/20 ------> (include 4/20 of the previous probabilty)

so

The probability is equal to

(16/20)+(5/20)-(4/20)=17/20

The answer is 17/20

User Linyun Liu
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