SOLUTION: Seven cards numbered 1 to 7 are shuffled thoroughly. The top two cards are turned face up on a table. Draw a probability tree diagram and use it to calculate the probability that t

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Question 936012: Seven cards numbered 1 to 7 are shuffled thoroughly. The top two cards are turned face up on a table. Draw a probability tree diagram and use it to calculate the probability that the numbers will
(A) both be even. (B) have an odd sum

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We can't do tree diagrams on here.  

There are C(7,2) = (7*6)/(2*1) = 21 ways the two top cards can occur.

There are only 3 even numbered cards [2,4,6}, so there are only
C(3,2) = (3*2)/(2*1) = 3 ways both top cards can be even.  They
are {2,4}, {2,6}, and (4,6}. 

So the probability that both will be even is 3/21 or 1/7.

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To have an odd sum, one card must be even and the other odd.

We can pick the odd card 4 ways {1,3,5,7}
We can pick the even card 3 ways (2,4,6}

That's 4*3 = 12 ways to pick them so that the sum will be odd.

So the probability that the sum will be odd is 12/21 = 4/7.

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You'll have to ask your teacher how he wants you to draw
a tree diagram to figure this out, but the answers are 1/7
and 4/7.

Edwin

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