SOLUTION: What are the odds in favor of drawing a club from an ordinary deck of cards?

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Question 602411: What are the odds in favor of drawing a club from an ordinary deck of cards?
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The odds in favor of anything is the ratio of the number of possible ways for the event to occur to the number of ways that it could possibly not occur. There are 52 cards in a deck and 13 of them are clubs.

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