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Question 245865: A card is selected at random from a standard deck. What are the odds that the card is not the ace of spades? Answer by dabanfield(803) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The sum of the probabilities of an event happening and not happening is 1. That is P(e) + P(not e) = 1.
The probability of drawing an ace of spades is 1/52 (one card from a deck of 52).
So the probability of not drawing the ace of spades is 1-(1/52) = 51/52.
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