Homework Help: math

Posted by becca on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 8:14pm.

what are the odds in favor of randomly drawing the letter m from the letters in the word remember? would it be 2 out of 8 would you simplify it to 1 out of 4??? help

math - Steve, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 10:31am
1/4 would be the probability
the odds are 1:3 in favor.
That is, if 1 out of 4 draws succeeds, then there are 3 which fail.

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