Basic Probability: Categorising Books

Basic Probability: Categorising Books

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Dylan has 17 books on his desk of which 12 are textbooks and 5 are comic books. The books are either in Japanese or English medium. He has a total of 6 Japanese books, 4 of which are comic books.

If each book is equally likely to be chosen and a book is chosen at random from the desk, find the probability of choosing

  1. a book in English,
  2. a Japanese textbook,
  3. a comic book,
  4. an English comic book,
  5. an English or comic book.

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Answer:(i) \(\frac{11}{17}\) (ii) \(\frac2{17}\) (iii) \(\frac5{17}\) (iv) \(\frac1{17}\) (v) \(\frac{15}{17}\)

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