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A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of playing cards. Find the probability that the card is drawn is either queen or red

User Mick F
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Answer:

28/52, simplified is 14/26. The latter is the answer the questionnaire is probably looking for but if a human is marking it it doesn't hurt to write both.

Explanation:

There are 26 cards that are red in a deck, plus 4 queens, minus the 2 queens that are already red.

User Mackshkatz
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Answer:

15/26

Explanation:

There are 52 cards in a deck. A deck of cards contains 4 queen cards and 26 red cards. 30/52 simplified is 15/26.

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