Question

one of 50 states is chosen at random. What is the probability of not choosing a state that begins with the letter n?

Answer 1

8 states start with the letter N. Because you’re looking for the amount of states not starting with the letter N, we’ll subtract 8 from 50. Then you’ll put that over the total amount of states. So you should end up with 42/50 which will simplify to 21/25. Hope this helped!

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