Question

A letter is chosen from the word ‘PENCIL’ what is the probability that the letter chosen is a consonant?

Answer 1

Total no. of letters in the word ‘PENCIL = 6
Total Number of Consonant = ‘PNCL’ i.e. 4

P(E) = `"Total No. of consonants"/"Total No. of letters in the word PENCIL"`

= `4/6 = 2/3`