SOLUTION: If you pick a card at random from a well shuffled deck, what is the probability that you get a spade or a king?

Question 978464: If you pick a card at random from a well shuffled deck, what is the probability that you get a spade or a king?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

There are 13 spades and 4 kings, but one of the kings is a spade, so there are a total of 13 + 3 (or 12 + 4 if you prefer to look at it that way) successful outcomes out of 52 possible outcomes. Do your own arithmetic.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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