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What is the probability of pulling a jack or a heart out of a deck of 52 cards

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Answer:

=4/13

Explanation:

There are 13 hearts in a deck

4 jacks

but 1 is the jack of hearts so we don't double count it

13+4-1 = 16

P( heart or a jack) = jack or heart/ total

= 16/52

=4/13

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