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For a sightseeing trip, a tourist selects a country randomly from Argentina, Bangladesh, China, Angola, Russia and Algeria. What is the probability that the name of the selected country will begin with A?

The probable outcomes for countries name beginning with A = 3


Total no of countries = 6


⇒ probability



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