A letter is to be picked at random from the English alphabet. If each letter is equally likely to be selected, what is the possibility of selecting a consonant? Consonants are letters except for a,e,I,o, and u. Write your answer in the simplest form of a fraction.

Question

A letter is to be picked at random from the English alphabet. If each letter is equally likely to be selected, what is the possibility of selecting a consonant? Consonants are letters except for a,e,I,o, and u. Write your answer in the simplest form of a fraction.

Answer 1

There are a total of 26 letters in the English alphabet.

Out of these 26 letters, there are 21 consonants (b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z).

Therefore, the probability of selecting a consonant at random is 21/26.

So, the possibility of selecting a consonant is 21/26.