Question

What are the odds in favor of randomly drawing the letter I from the letters in the word STATISTICS​?

Answer 1

There are 10 letters, but only 2 of them are "I."

Thus, the odds of rand. drawing the letter "I" are two in ten, or 2/10, or 0.20.

Answer 2

There are 10 letters in statistics and there are two i's there so 2:10 odds = 1:5 or 20%