Question 209229: A single card is drawn from an ordinary 52-card deck. Find the probability of getting a heart and a jack.
Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! number of hearts in the deck is 13
number of jacks in the deck is 4
one of those jacks is a heart so the number of jacks in the deck that is not a heart is 3.
13 hearts plus 3 jacks makes a total of 16 cards that are either a heart or a jack.
the probability of drawing a jack OR a heart on one draw of the cards is 16/52
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you said, however, what is the probability of drawing a jack AND a heart.
there is only 1 jack of hearts in the deck, so the probability is 1/52 that you will get a heart and a jack on one draw of the cards.
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