A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability that the card is an ace or a king?

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A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability that the card is an ace or a king?

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-15T03:11:56

$\frac{2}{13}$ $2/13$

Explanation:

There are 52 cards in a standard deck: 13 ordinal cards (Ace - 10, Jack, Queen, King) and 4 of them - one to each suit (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) and so we have $4 \times 13 = 52$ $4xx13=52$ .

There are 8 cards that fit the question (4 each of aces and kings).

And so in a random draw, the odds of drawing one of those 8 cards out of the total number of 52 is:

$\frac{8}{52}$ $8/52$

which we can simplify:

$\frac{8}{52} = \frac{2}{13}$ $8/52=2/13$

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