Natalie has a box containing 26 tiles, each with a different letter of the alphabet. She randomly chooses 5 letters. Which expre

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Maurinko [17]

3 years ago

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Natalie has a box containing 26 tiles, each with a different letter of the alphabet. She randomly chooses 5 letters. Which expre

ssion represents the probability that she will choose five vowels (not counting Y as a vowel)?

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kirill115 [55] · Answer 1 · 2021-11-11T03:18:24+03:00

kirill115 [55]3 years ago

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The total number of combinations of the 26 letters taken 5 at a time is 26C5 = 65780. Only one of these combinations has the five vowels. Therefore the probability of choosing five vowels is: 1/65780.