document.write( "Question 1095410: If you randomly select a card from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that the card youselect is not a diamond?
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document.write( "39 of the 52 cards are non-diamonds.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the probability is 39 ways out of 52 ways or 39/52 which\r\n" );
document.write( "reduces to 3/4.\r\n" );
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document.write( "You can also think of it simply as 4 suits, each one equally likely,\r\n" );
document.write( "to draw, and 3 of the 4 suits are not diamonds.  So the probability \r\n" );
document.write( "is 3/4.\r\n" );
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