Question

What is thre probability of selecting a 5 or a diamond from a standard deck of playing cards

Answer 1

first - how many 5's are there is a deck?

Answer 2

4

Answer 3

correct.
next - how many diamonds are there in a deck?

Answer 4

13

Answer 5

correct again.
finally - how many cards are there in a deck?

Answer 6

52

Answer 7

good.

now what you need to remember is that out of the 13 diamonds in the deck, one of them is also a 5.

so that means you have 13 diamonds plus 3 other 5's that you can pick - making a total of 16 cards.

Answer 8

so the probability becomes: 16/52

Answer 9

which you should be able to simplify

Answer 10

make sense?

Answer 11

Yes it does. I have another question

Answer 12

please post it as a new question

Answer 13

Ok

Answer 14

you will first need to close this question as you are only allowed to have one open question at any given time.