SOLUTION: For the experiment of drawing a single card from a standard 52-card deck, find (a) the probability, and (b) the odds in favor of the following event: drawing a jack OR a heart

Question 1069484: For the experiment of drawing a single card from a standard 52-card deck, find (a) the probability, and (b) the odds in favor of the following event: drawing a jack OR a heart
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 13 hearts in the deck, there are 4 jacks in the deck, there is one Jack of hearts.

Probability shows you outcomes for the event divided by total outcomes.
For odds, you need outcomes against the event.
Just subtract "outcomes for" from total outcomes.

So odds in favor would be 4:9.

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