document.write( "Question 1085138: We are drawing a single card from a standard 52-card deck. Find the following probability.
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P( three | non face card)
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document.write( "The probability of drawing a three, given that it is a non face card.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Here is the COMPLETE sample space of all 52 cards:\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( "Below is the reduced sample space found by taking away everything \r\n" );
document.write( "from the complete sample space that is not given.  Here we are given \r\n" );
document.write( "that it is a non-face card, so we take away all 12 face cards, \r\n" );
document.write( "leaving the 40 non-face cards.\r\n" );
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document.write( "A♥   2♥   3♥   4♥   5♥   6♥   7♥   8♥  9♥  10♥   \r\n" );
document.write( "A♦   2♦   3♦   4♦   5♦   6♦   7♦   8♦  9♦  10♦\r\n" );
document.write( "A♠   2♠   3♠   4♠   5♠   6♠   7♠   8♠  9♠  10♠  \r\n" );
document.write( "A♣   2♣   3♣   4♣   5♣   6♣   7♣   8♣  9♣  10♣ \r\n" );
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document.write( "Now from that reduced sample space, only 4 of them are threes.  So\r\n" );
document.write( "the probability is \"4 out of 40, or 4/40 which reduces to 1/10.\r\n" );
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