A letter is to be randomly picked from the word MISSISSIPPI. Which set of letters have equal chances to be selected?
Each letter in "MISSISSIPPI" has different frequencies, so the chance of selecting each letter is not equal.
To calculate the probabilities of each letter being selected, we need to count the frequency of each unique letter in the word "MISSISSIPPI":
- M: 1
- I: 4
- S: 4
- P: 2
To have equal chances of being selected, each letter would need to have a probability of 1/11 (the total number of letters in "MISSISSIPPI"). Since the letters in "MISSISSIPPI" have different frequencies, they do not have equal probabilities of being selected.