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Question 317909: With a deck containing 52 cards what's the probabilty of choosing at random a black card or not a face card? Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! With a deck containing 52 cards what's the probabilty of choosing at random a black card or not a face card?
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# of black cards = 26
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# of face cards = 3*4 = 12
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# of face cards that are black cards = 6
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P(black or not face) = P(black) + P(not face) - P(black and not face)
= 26/52 + 40/52 - 20/52
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= 46/52
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= 23/26
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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