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Suppose you ask a friend to randomly choose an integer between 1 and 10, inclusive.What is the probability that the number will be more than 2 or odd? (Enter your probability as a fraction.)

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Suppose you ask a friend to randomly choose an integer between 1 and 10, inclusive.What is the probability that the number will be more than 2 or odd? (Enter your probability as a fraction.)

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Solution

To solve this problem, we need to consider two sets of numbers: the set of numbers greater than 2 and the set of odd numbers.

  1. The set of numbers greater than 2 in the range 1-10 is {3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}. This set has 8 elements.

  2. The set of odd numbers in the range 1-10 is {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}. This set has 5 elements.

However, you'll notice that some numbers (3, 5, 7, 9) are included in both sets. When we're calculating the probability of the number being greater than 2 OR odd, we don't want to count these numbers twice.

So, we need to find the union of these two sets, which includes all the unique numbers from both sets. The union of the two sets is {1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}, which has 9 elements.

The total number of possible outcomes (i.e., the total number of integers from 1 to 10) is 10.

So, the probability of the number being greater than 2 or odd is the number of favorable outcomes (9) divided by the total number of outcomes (10).

Therefore, the probability is 9/10.

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