SOLUTION: A card is drawn at random from each of two well shuffled packs of cards. What is the probabiity that at east one of them is queen of spades

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Question 840640: A card is drawn at random from each of two well shuffled packs of cards. What is the probabiity that at east one of them is queen of spades
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A card is drawn at random from each of two well shuffled packs of cards. What is the probabiity that at east one of them is queen of spades
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P(at least one) = 1 - P(neither is the queen of spades)
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= 1 - (51/52)^2
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= 1 - 0.9619
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= 0.0381
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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