SOLUTION: i HAVE A DECK OF 52 CARDS. wHAT ARE THE ODDS AGAINST AND IN FAVOR OF DRAWING A HEART?
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Question 1137395: i HAVE A DECK OF 52 CARDS. wHAT ARE THE ODDS AGAINST AND IN FAVOR OF DRAWING A HEART?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In a card deck there are suits, so divided by is .
Hence there are hearts.
minus is, so there are cards that are hearts.
So if drawing a is considered a , then there are possible , and there are possible .
Hence, the odds in favor of drawing a heart are .
But notice that both and are evenly divisible by , so reduced to lowest terms we have .
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