An experiment was conducted by the authors to determine the relative occurrence of various letters of the English alphabet. The front page of a newspaper was considered. In all, there were 9136 letters. The number of occurrences of each letter of the alphabet is listed in the table below.

a) Complete the table of probabilities with the percentage, to the nearest tenth of a percent, of the occurrence of each letter.
b) What is the probability of a vowel occurring?
c) What is the probability of a consonant occurring?

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Number of Letter Occurrences Probability 853/9136 853 136 273 286 1229 173 190 399 539 21 : ,as 9.3% 417 231 597 705 238 609 745 789 240 113 127 20 124 21 : 21/9136 0.2%