SOLUTION: If you randomly select a card from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that the card youselect is not a diamond? Write your answer as a simplified

Question 1095410: If you randomly select a card from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that the card youselect is not a diamond?
Write your answer as a simplified fraction.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20059) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

39 of the 52 cards are non-diamonds.

So the probability is 39 ways out of 52 ways or 39/52 which
reduces to 3/4.

You can also think of it simply as 4 suits, each one equally likely,
to draw, and 3 of the 4 suits are not diamonds.  So the probability 
is 3/4.

Edwin

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