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put this solution on YOUR website!To find a basic probability with all outcomes equally likely, we use a fraction:
number of favorable outcomes
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total number of possible outcomes
In this case, we want to find the probability of randomly selecting the letter s from the word, meaning our favorable outcome is the letter s.
The total number of possible outcomes is the number of letters in the word Mississippi.
So then:
number of the letter s
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number of total letters
4/11
So the probability of selecting an s is 4/11 or 0.364 or 36.4%.
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