document.write( "Question 768724: A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. what is the probability that the card is a spade and not a face card? \n" ); document.write( "

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A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. what is the probability that the card is a spade and not a face card?
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document.write( "That's the probability that we draw one of the these 10\r\n" );
document.write( "cards that is a spade but not a face card:\r\n" );
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document.write( "A♠   2♠   3♠   4♠   5♠   6♠   7♠   8♠  9♠  10♠\r\n" );
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document.write( "out of these 52:\r\n" );
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document.write( "A♥   2♥   3♥   4♥   5♥   6♥   7♥   8♥  9♥  10♥  J♥  Q♥  K♥ \r\n" );
document.write( "A♦   2♦   3♦   4♦   5♦   6♦   7♦   8♦  9♦  10♦  J♦  Q♦  K♦\r\n" );
document.write( "A♠   2♠   3♠   4♠   5♠   6♠   7♠   8♠  9♠  10♠  J♠  Q♠  K♠  \r\n" );
document.write( "A♣   2♣   3♣   4♣   5♣   6♣   7♣   8♣  9♣  10♣  J♣  Q♣  K♣ \r\n" );
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document.write( "That's a probability of 10 out ot 52.\r\n" );
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document.write( "In probability, \"out of\" means \"over\", so\r\n" );
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document.write( "the probability is 10 over 52 or \r\n" );
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document.write( "which reduces to \r\n" );
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