SOLUTION: If you randomly select a card from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that the card you select is a diamond or Queen?

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Question 1123046: If you randomly select a card from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that the card you select is a diamond or Queen?
Found 2 solutions by Alex.33, greenestamps:
Answer by Alex.33(110) About Me  (Show Source):
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Since the deck is well-shuffled and the selection is random, the probability of selecting any 1 card in the deck is equivalent. There are 14 diamonds and 4 Queens.
Therefore,
P(diamond)=14/52=1/4.
P(Queen)=4/52=1/13.

Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
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I will assume it was a typo when the other tutor said there are 14 diamonds in a deck of cards....

Also, he treated your question as two separate questions -- the probability of getting a diamond, and the probability of getting a queen.

I suspect the intent was to find the probability of getting a diamond or a queen when drawing a single card once. In that case, since there are 13 diamonds plus 3 queens that are not diamonds, the probability is 16/52 = 4/13.