Problem 117
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 event specified.
Drawing one slip, what is P (slip contains a vowel)? Do not consider “y” as a vowel.
Solution
Total possible case are = 36
Total favorable cases {a, e, I, o, u} = 5
P( slip contains a vowel ) = 