Find the probability of choosing a letter other than the letter U from a bag that contains the nineteen letters of the French city BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT. Express your answer as a fraction in lowest terms or a decimal rounded to the nearest millionth.

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There are 19 letters and and 2 (?) U's. This makes the probability 2/19.
PS You can represent it as a fraction by dividing 2 by 19 (2÷19) but I'm too lazy to do that.

The probability of choosing a letter other than letter U from a bag contains the nineteen letters of the French city BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT is 0.8947.

What is probability?

Probability is the chance of happening an event from all the events possible. It lies between 0 and 1. The formula of calculating probability is number of items divided by total items.

How to calculate probability?

Total letters in the word of city name BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT is 19.

Number of U letters in he word=2

Total number of letters other than U is 19-2=17 letters.

Proabability of choosing a letter other than the letter U from a bag that contain nineteen letters is number of letters other than U / total letters in the word BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT

=17/19

=0.8947

Hence the probability of choosing a letter other than letter U from a bag contains the nineteen letters of the French city BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT is 0.8947.

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