document.write( "Question 1103630: If a card is drawn at random from a standard deck of 52 cards, what is the probability of getting:
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document.write( "That's one of these 12\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 12 out of 52 or a probability of 12/52 which reduces to 3/13\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's one of these 4\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" );
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document.write( "That's 4 out of 52 or a probability of 4/52 which reduces to 1/13\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's one of these 26\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" );
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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" );
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document.write( "That's 26 out of 52 or a probability of 26/52 which reduces to 1/2\r\n" );
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document.write( "A face card and a head card are the same thing because if there's a \r\n" );
document.write( "face on it there's a head on it because a face is on a head, and all \r\n" );
document.write( "the heads have faces on them.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So that's the same as a.  3/13\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's one of these 6\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" );
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document.write( "That's 6 out of 52 or a probability of 6/52 which reduces to 3/26\r\n" );
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