A deck of cards contains 52 cards: 13 are spades, 13 are hearts, 13 are clubs, and 13 are diamonds. Jimmy tears up the ace of spades. Then he shuffles the deck and draws one card. What is the probability that the card is a spade?
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Is the answer 12/51?
2007-01-08 08:50:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Accept this answer from someone who actually KNOWS! The probability is 12/51 simplified to 4/17.
2007-01-08 09:00:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you are right if he tears up the ace of spades then there are only 12 spades left so if there were 52 cards minus the 1 card that was torn up there 51 whole cards left so your are definitely right 12 out of 51.
2007-01-08 09:05:44 · answer #2 · answered by dreamgirl542 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. In English, the question is.
Given that there are 51 cards, and 12 of them are spades, what is the probability that you will draw one of the spades. Well done.
2007-01-08 08:53:04 · answer #3 · answered by The Answer Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes or about 24 percent
2007-01-08 08:57:43 · answer #4 · answered by TheSeventhX 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the answer is 23.5 %
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51/12.000
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50
I may be wrong, so read the other posts to be sure.
2007-01-08 09:01:14 · answer #5 · answered by Average Joe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is
2007-01-08 08:53:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋