A letter of english alphabets is chosen at random.What is the probability that it is a letter of the word MATHEMATICS.

Answer 1

First find out how many distinct letters are there in the word MATHEMATICS, call this number "n".
For example, the word SAILING has the letters S,A,I,L,N,G, 6 out of 7 letters are distinct, while the letter I is repeated but not counted more than once.
In the English alphabet, there are 26 distinct letters.
Assuming that the probability is equal for choosing any one of the 26 letters, then the probability of choosing any one letter out of the word MATHEMATICS is n out of 26, or
n/26, where n has been counted in the first paragraph.

Answer 2

MATHEMATICS=8/26 OR 11/26