SOLUTION: A card is selected from an ordinary deck of 52 cards. The probability that the card is a queen or a spade is ? thank you

Question 369892: A card is selected from an ordinary deck of 52 cards. The probability that the card is a queen or a spade is ? thank you
Answer by neatmath(302) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 52 cards.

There are 4 Queens.

There are 13 Spades, however one of the Spades is a Queen!

So number of Queens + number of Spades - number of Queens which are Spades is

So the probability that you select a Queen or a Spade is 16/52 or 4/13

This is approximately 0.308

So you would have a 30.8% chance of pulling a Queen or a Spade from a standard deck of cards.

I hope this helps!

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