SOLUTION: A card is drawn frim a standard deck of cards. What is the probability that the card is an ace or a red card?

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There are 52 cards in a deck.
4 of the cards are aces
26 of the cards are red
But 2 of the aces are red, so the number of cards that represent a successful trial is the 26 red cards plus the 2 black aces, or 28, and the probability of drawing either a red card or an ace is 28%2F52=7%2F13