Question

What are the odds that you will pick an ace from a standard deck of 52 cards?

Answer 1

A.1 : 12
B.1 : 14
C.2 : 13
D.5 : 21

Answer 2

The odds are the ratio of the probability of picking an ace to that of not picking an ace.
There are 4 aces in the deck, so the probability of picking an ace is 4/52. Do you know the probability of not picking an ace?

Answer 3

@WAyne5 Are you there?

Answer 4

Yeah

Answer 5

So what is the probability of not picking an ace?

Answer 6

Idk but is the answer c because 52 divided 4 is 13 c is 2 : 13

Answer 7

(4/52) / (48/52) = 1/12

so A

Answer 8

are you sure it's C?
odd = P(favor)/P(against) = 4/48 = 1/12

Answer 9

Idk it was just a guess

Answer 10

The probability of not picking an ace is:
\[\frac{52-4}{52}=\frac{48}{52}\]
So the odds are:
\[\frac{4}{52}:\frac{48}{52}=1:12\]

Answer 11

OK thanks for the help @sourwing and @kropot72

Answer 12

You're welcome :)