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What is the probability that a letter chosen at random from the 26 letters in the alphabet would be in the word mathematics?
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∙ 14y ago
There are eight different letters in 'mathematics' - a, c, e, h, i, m, s and t.
Since there are 26 letters in the alphabet, the chance of a randomly chosen one being a letter that's in mathematics is 8/26, or 4/13.
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