document.write( "Question 587922: what is the probability of drawing 1 red card from a deck of 52 cards?
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Algebra.Com's Answer #374299 by Edwin McCravy(20056)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "Two ways to look at it.  The nonmathematical way:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"One-half the cards are red, so the probability is one-half\".  That's because\r\n" );
document.write( "one-half of the time you'll get a red card and the other half of the time you\r\n" );
document.write( "won't.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The mathematical way.  There are 26 red cards in a deck of 52.  So the\r\n" );
document.write( "probability of getting a red card is 26 ways out of 52, or 26/52 which reduces\r\n" );
document.write( "to 1/2.\r\n" );
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