Question

Suppose you pick a tile out of a bag containing 26 tiles marked with the letters A through Z. What is the probability of picking a letter from the name JACK or from the name BEN?

Answer 1

Given that a bag contains 26 tiles marked with the letters A through Z.

The probability of picking a letter from the name JACK is 4 / 26

The probability of picking a letter from the name BEN is 3 / 26.

Therefore, the probability of picking a letter from the name JACK or from the name BEN iis given by 4 / 26 + 3 / 26 = 7 / 26