Question

English and American spelling are rigour and rigor, respectively. A man staying at Al Rashid hotel writes this word, and a letter taken at random from his spelling is found to be a vowel. If 40 percent of the English-speaking men at the hotel are English and 60 percent are American, what is the probability that the writer is an Englishman

Answer 1

If 40 percent of the English-speaking men at the hotel are English and 60 percent are American, the the probability that the writer is an Englishman

is 40% or 0.4.

Explanation:

i) If 40 percent of the English-speaking men at the hotel are English and 60 percent are American, the the probability that the writer is an Englishman

is 40% or 0.4.