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A 3. A card is pulled from a standard deck of cards.

Can you find P(queen or hearts)? (make sure you aren't double counting!!!)l

A 3. A card is pulled from a standard deck of cards. Can you find P(queen or hearts-example-1
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Answer: 4/13

Step-by-step explanation:

There are 13 hearts, including the queen of hearts. Then there are 3 more queens to get us to 13+3 = 16 cards we're after.

There are 16 cards we want out of 52 total, so the probability is 16/52 = (4*4)/(4*13) = 4/13

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