A car listens plate is made up of 7letters or numbers, where the numbers are whole numbers 0-9.

Suppose the license plate is randomly generated, one character at a time.

What is the probability the first character is a number?

Enter you sender as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth

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Charlotte Miles

Mathematics

19 December, 03:20

A car listens plate is made up of 7letters or numbers, where the numbers are whole numbers 0-9.

Suppose the license plate is randomly generated, one character at a time.

What is the probability the first character is a number?

Enter you sender as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth

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Myla Green · Answer 1

There is 26 letters and 10 numbers, so a possibility of 36 different characters for each one

so probability of the first character being a number would be 10/36 as a fraction and 0.2777 (the seven keeps repeating) as a decimal

rounded to nearest hundredth would be 0.28

A car listens plate is made up of 7letters or numbers, where the numbers are whole numbers 0-9.Suppose the license plate is randomly generated, one character at a time.What is the probability the first character is a number?Enter you sender as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth

A car listens plate is made up of 7letters or numbers, where the numbers are whole numbers 0-9.

Suppose the license plate is randomly generated, one character at a time.

What is the probability the first character is a number?

Enter you sender as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth