You have a total of 11 letters in "mathematics" and you have 4 vowels (a,e,a,i) so the probability of drawing a vowel is 4/11.
In other words if you were to consider the vowel's to be 1's and the consonants 2's. What is the probability of drawing a "1". There would be 4 1's and 7 2's. It would be 4/11
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Probablity of picking up 3 vowels from the word MATHEMATICS Each of the letters in the word MATHEMATICS is on a letter tile in a bag
The word 'probability' has 11 letters and 5 of them are vowels (including the 'y'). Therefore the probability of picking a vowel is 5/11.
The probability is 1. The letters in the word mathematics are all constants, not variables!
2 in 5
If picked at random, the answer is 2/11.