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

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asnaseer · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

4

asnaseer · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

13

asnaseer · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

52

asnaseer · Answer

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.

asnaseer · Answer

so the probability becomes: 16/52

asnaseer · Answer

which you should be able to simplify

asnaseer · Answer

make sense?

anonymous · Answer

Yes it does. I have another question

asnaseer · Answer

please post it as a new question

anonymous · Answer

Ok

asnaseer · Answer

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