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| Question 626953:  What is the probability of picking any ACE, King, Two, Heart or Spade from a deck of 52 cards.
 Found 3 solutions by  psbhowmick, stanbon, Edwin McCravy:
 Answer by psbhowmick(878)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! What is the probability of picking any ACE, King, Two, Heart or Space from a deck of 52 cards. # of ways to succeed: 13+13+2+2+2 = 32
 # of possible outcomes: 52
 Probability = 32/52
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 Cheers,
 Stan H.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20064)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! What is the probability of picking any ACE, King, Two, Heart or Spade from a deck of 52 cards. 
 That's the probability of picking any one of these 32 cards:
A♥ 2♥ 3♥ 4♥ 5♥ 6♥ 7♥ 8♥ 9♥ 10♥ J♥ Q♥ K♥ 
A♦ 2♦                                K♦
A♠ 2♠ 3♠ 4♠ 5♠ 6♠ 7♠ 8♠ 9♠ 10♠ J♠ Q♠ K♠ 
A♣ 2♣                                K♣
out of these 52 cards:
A♥ 2♥ 3♥ 4♥ 5♥ 6♥ 7♥ 8♥ 9♥ 10♥ J♥ Q♥ K♥ 
A♦ 2♦ 3♦ 4♦ 5♦ 6♦ 7♦ 8♦ 9♦ 10♦ J♦ Q♦ K♦
A♠ 2♠ 3♠ 4♠ 5♠ 6♠ 7♠ 8♠ 9♠ 10♠ J♠ Q♠ K♠  
A♣ 2♣ 3♣ 4♣ 5♣ 6♣ 7♣ 8♣ 9♣ 10♣ J♣ Q♣ K♣  
That's 32 out of 52.  In probability theory, "out of" means "over",
so "32 out of 52" means a probability of  which reduces to  .
Edwin
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