SOLUTION: Determine the probability that a card drawn from a deck is red or a face card.
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Question 751584: Determine the probability that a card drawn from a deck is red or a face card.
Answer by FrankM(1040) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Red cards are 50%
Face Cards are 3/13
But if we add these, we get duplicate counting. So of the 12/52 face cards, we need to ignore half which are red, so there are 6/52 black face cards. And the 26 cards that are red.
32/52 = 8/13
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