Question

A board game has 26 tiles labeled with alphabet letters. Players draw 1 tile at a time. Over 260 different drawings, how many times are players likely to draw either a vowel or the letter Y? Show your work.

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Answer 1

Answer: 0.00669%

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Answer 2

Answer: The probablty is is 41221/26 or 0.00669%

Explanation:

Drawing tiles from the bag at one time is mathematically equivalent to drawing one tile 4 times inculding the vowel, without replacement.

If we get one of these 4 letters on draw 1, then on draw 2, we'll have 3 possible successful draws out of the 25 tiles left.

This pattern continues down to draw 4. Since each draw is independent, we just multiply the probabilities together: