Final answer:
The odds of drawing a heart from a standard 52-card deck are 13 to 39, and the probability is 1/4 or 0.25.
Step-by-step explanation:
The student has asked for the odds and probability (referred to by the student as 'fever') of drawing a heart from a standard deck of playing cards.
In a standard 52-card deck, each suit (hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds) has 13 cards.
Since the events of drawing a heart (H) and drawing a spade (S) are mutually exclusive (a card cannot be both), the probability of drawing a heart is simply the number of hearts divided by the total number of cards.
- Number of hearts (H) = 13
- Total number of cards in the deck = 52
The probability of drawing a heart is therefore 13/52, which simplifies to 1/4 or 0.25.
The odds in favor of drawing a heart are 13 to 39 (since there are 39 other cards that are not hearts).
In other words, for every 13 times you draw a heart, you would expect to draw a non-heart 39 times.