Homework Help: Math-probability

Posted by bwb on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 12:39am.

consider a bowl containing 36 different slips of paper. Ten of the slips of paper each contain one of the set of digits 0 through 9 and 26 slips each contain one of the 26 letters of
the alphabet. Determine the probabilities of the events specified.

Drawing one slip, what is P(even number or a vowel)?

I know that there are four even numbers and five vowels. How do I figure this out?

Math-probability - Reiny, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 8:14am
so that would make it simply as
9/36 or 1/4

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