SOLUTION: Problem says this: Each individual letter of the word TENNESSEE is placed on a piece of paper and all 9 pieces of paper are placed in a hat. If one letter is selected at random fr

Question 486516: Problem says this:
Each individual letter of the word TENNESSEE is placed on a piece of paper and all 9 pieces of paper are placed in a hat. If one letter is selected at random from the hat, determine the probability that the letter S is not selected. Explain.
Will someone help me a little bit, please? Thank you!

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Interpret this as the probability of selecting one of the 7
 non-S's from the 9 letters:


            number of non-S's     7
P(non-S) =  �����������������  = ����
            number of letters     9

Edwin

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