SOLUTION: Answer the following problems. 1. What is the probability of drawing an ace or a king from a standard deck of cards?

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Question 1180380: Answer the following problems.
1. What is the probability of drawing an ace or a king from a standard deck of cards?
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Answer: 2/13

This is because there are 4+4 = 8 cards that are either an ace, or a king, out of 52 total.
Then we'd say 8/52 = 2/13.

Or you can think of it like focusing on one suit only (say clubs) and then seeing we have 2 cards we want (ace of clubs, king of clubs) out of 13 cards total from this specific suit. Hence the 2/13.