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Jaysen flips a coin and selects a letter tile at random from those shown.

What is the probability of flipping heads and selecting a vowel? Express your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Jaysen flips a coin and selects a letter tile at random from those shown. What is-example-1
User Sai Manoj
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Answer:

1/5 or 20%

Explanation:

The reason I say this is because the probability of flipping heads is 1/2 or 50% and the probability of picking a vowel is 4/10 or 2/5 or 40% and then 1/2 times 2/5 equals 1/5 or 20%

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