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Okay sy mash members last one Hold your breath and

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now let it go There are hundred tiles in a

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bag of scrabble Four of them are ss If action

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draws one tile looks at it puts it back and

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then draws one tile again what is the probability that

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he will draw in s both times We love us

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some scrabble here it's month Our preferred dictionary is a

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little weird though it's got words like quickie bow and

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park nerf and needless to say we kill it when

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we play scrabble Well this bag has a hundred scrabble

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tiles and only four of them are letter asked if

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action is drawing a tile at random and replacing it

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that means each time he reaches into the bag there

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will be a hundred tiles with for s is In

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other words the probability of drawing an ass will always

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be for one hundred or one out of twenty five

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or point oh four or about four percent each time

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as long as he tosses the tile he took back

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in before he draws again So to find the probability

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of getting an ass followed by another asked multiply those

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two probabilities together and you've got a point Oh four

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times point oh for his point o o one six

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So action has a point One six percent chance of

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getting and ask followed by an s the better question

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would be how likely are we to get a mad

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followed by a brew If dr seuss says they're letters 00:01:20.348 --> [endTime] or words Well who are we to argue

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