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Okay yes i'm ash jumpers Here we go Ah almost

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done Rashaad is trying to think of character names for

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a short story Put the name's carter jackson lincoln cassidy

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and kennedy on a five sided die Any roles at

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once for the characters first name and once for the

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last according to the area model below what's The probability

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that character will have the same first name is last

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name All right we've got an area model here to

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show us the sample space for all the possible names

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we could get using carter jackson kennedy lincoln and cassidy

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in both first and last names there Yeah we could

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have made an organized list of all the names or

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simple table or even a tree diagram and doesn't matter

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exactly how we show the samples based lungs We show

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all the possibilities well to find the probability that rashad

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gets the same first and last name we first count

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how many total outcomes there are in the sample space

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This will live in the basement of our fraction This

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five by five grid has twenty five total outcomes Now

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count how many times we get a same first and

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last name Like carter carter there are five such names

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This is in the addict of our fraction and that

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makes five over twenty five or one fifth or twenty

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percent So twenty percent chance getting the same first and

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last name And well we're kind of partial to that 00:01:16.526 --> [endTime] lincoln lincoln actually shmoop home

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