SOLUTION: I am having difficulties understanding this problem. can you please help. find the probability of the event: a number card (A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) is drawn. thank you!

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Question 407872: I am having difficulties understanding this problem. can you please help.
find the probability of the event:
a number card (A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) is drawn.
thank you!

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Since there are 10 number cards and there are 4 suits, there are 4*10 = 40 number cards total (the other 12 are face cards).


Since there are a total of 52 cards, this means that the probability is 40%2F52=10%2F13


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