SOLUTION: what's the probability of pulling a heart or a queen from a standard deck of a cards?

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Question 395677: what's the probability of pulling a heart or a queen from a standard deck of a cards?
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Your denominator is 52 because there are 52 cards in the deck. There are 13 hearts and 4 queens, but one of the queens is a heart, so there are a total of 13 + 3 (or 12 + 4) = 16 in your numerator. Just reduce the fraction.

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