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Question 1052622: A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability of drawing a face card or a spade?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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There are 3 face cards per suit for a total of 12 face cards.
There are 13 spades.
There are 3 face cards that are also spades.
There are 52 total cars
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