SOLUTION: find odds against getting a spade from deck of cards

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Question 597307: find odds against getting a spade from deck of cards
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Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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find odds against getting a spade from deck of cards
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odds against E = [P(E/)]/[P(E)] = (1/4)/(3/4) = 1:3
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Stan H.
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Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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The odds against is the ratio of the number of ways that the event doesn't happen to the number of ways it does happen. You have 52 cards, 39 of them are not spades and 13 of them are.



Then reduce:



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