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Question 422488: One letter is randomly selected from the word PRIME and one letter is randomly slected from the word MATH. What is the proability that both letters slected are vowels?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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P(Both Vowels) = P(Vowel from PRIME) * P(Vowel from MATH)

P(Both Vowels) = (2/5)*(1/4)

P(Both Vowels) = 2/20

P(Both Vowels) = 1/10


So the probability is 1%2F10