Question

A jar of alphabet tiles contains 10 unique consonant tiles and 5 unique vowel tiles. If 5 tiles are picked randomly, the probability that 3 are consonants and 2 are vowels is____

Answer 1

The required probability is found as follows:

`P(3\ consonants\ and\ 2\ vowels)=(10C3*5C2)/(15C5)=0.3996`
The answer is 0.3996 or 0.4 to 1 d.p.