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A jar of alphabet tiles contains 10 unique consonant tiles and 5 unique vowel tiles. If 5 tiles are picked randomly, the probability that 3 are consonants and 2 are vowels is____

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The required probability is found as follows:

P(3\ consonants\ and\ 2\ vowels)=(10C3*5C2)/(15C5)=0.3996
The answer is 0.3996 or 0.4 to 1 d.p.
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