One letter tile is randomly drawn from a set of 26 alphabet tiles representing letters A through Z. What is the probability that the letter drawn is a vowel or is in the word "now" (y does not count as a vowel here)? Give your answer as a fraction in reduced form.
Q. One letter tile is randomly drawn from a set of 26 alphabet tiles representing letters A through Z. What is the probability that the letter drawn is a vowel or is in the word "now" (y does not count as a vowel here)? Give your answer as a fraction in reduced form.
Question Prompt: Question prompt: What is the probability of drawing a vowel or a letter from the word "now" from a set of 26 alphabet tiles?
Identify Vowels: Identify the vowels in the alphabet: A, E, I, O, U. That's 5 vowels.
Identify Unique Letters: Identify the unique letters in the word "now": N, O, W. That's 3 letters.
Consider Overlapping: Notice that the letter O is both a vowel and in the word "now". We don't wanna count it twice, so we have 5 vowels + 2 other unique letters from "now" (N and W).
Calculate Favorable Outcomes: Calculate the total number of favorable outcomes: 5 vowels (A,E,I,O,U) + 2 letters from "now" (N,W) = 7 favorable outcomes.
Calculate Probability: Calculate the probability: P(vowel or letter in "now")=Total number of possible outcomesNumber of favorable outcomes=267.