SOLUTION: Suppose that you are playing a game of Scrabble and the remaining letters in the bag are ADKNSTVZ. If it is your turn to play and there is a C available for use on the board and yo

Question 339819: Suppose that you are playing a game of Scrabble and the remaining letters in the bag are ADKNSTVZ. If it is your turn to play and there is a C available for use on the board and you have a BXLE, needing to draw 3 letters, what is the chance that you will draw the needed AND to create the word CANDLE? (HINT: Consider how many ways you can draw 3 letters from a bag of 8).
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

You need to calculate:

Where

is the number of combinations of

things taken

at a time and is calculated by

Which will give you the denominator of your probability fraction, i.e. the total number of possible outcomes. Since only one of those outcomes is a success according to the parameters of your problem, the numerator of the probability fraction is 1.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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