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Express probability as a fraction, decimal, and percent.

Q. A game has 50 wooden tiles. players draw tiles to spell words. If 20 of the tiles are marked with vowels, what is the probability of drawing a vowel from the tiles?

Here is the answer, but I need an explantation of how to get to it! HELP!
A. 2/5, 0.4, 40%

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