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Melissa has a student dictionary on her desk. Her dictionary contains 86 pages. In this dictionary, more words start with the letter "S" than any other letter, occupying 15 full pages.

If she opens up the dictionary at random, what is the probability that the page contains words starting with "S"?
A. 16/101


B. 1/86


C. 15/86


D. 7/43

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Simple it 15/86 because there are 15 pgs of words starting with the letter S out of the 86 pgs of this dictionary
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