in how many ways can you draw a 6 or a face card from a deck of 52 cards

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anonymous · Answer

yo, gurl. How many 6s are there? How many face cards are there?

anonymous · Answer

P(6) = 4/52
P(face card) = 12/52
P(6) or P(face card) = 4/52 + 12/52
                              = 16/52
                              = 4/13
                              = 0.307

anonymous · Answer

@fitzmaths...Please allow the person who asked the question to do *some* of the work. Otherwise, there's no incentive to learn.

anonymous · Answer

Fitz that kind of answer is worthless.

anonymous · Answer

i see what you mean. haha, my answer was about probability and the question asks about the number of way you can draw a card. I think a better answer would be simply 4 & 12

anonymous · Answer

@shandelman and @SmoothMath, i understand your point.

anonymous · Answer

The point is to just not solve the problem. Help them solve it on their own.

anonymous · Answer

@akita hope you can do more problems by yourself now

anonymous · Answer

It's cool. But you're right, the question was not about the probability, it was just about the number of ways.  So, actually, the right answer has yet to be given.

anonymous · Answer

(Because the question was how many ways can you pick a 6 OR a face card? There's enough hints given that the answer is not too hard to figure out from what has been said).