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A card is chosen from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability (percent chance) that the card will be 4 or an Even card? Find P(4 or Even)

 A.38.46 %

B.30.77 %

C.2.37 %

D.46.15 %

 

Update****  Those are the choices for the answers.

 Dec 12, 2018
edited by so1963  Dec 12, 2018

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Solution:

 

A quick method for solving is to note that all fours (4) are even and  cannot be independent of even, so the probability is 613=.4615 Formally: ρ(4 or even)=ρ(4)+ρ(even)ρ(4 and even)=452+2452(4521)=46.15%

 

 

GA

 Dec 12, 2018
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cool cool cool

 Dec 12, 2018
edited by CPhill  Dec 12, 2018
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Best Answer

Solution:

 

A quick method for solving is to note that all fours (4) are even and  cannot be independent of even, so the probability is 613=.4615 Formally: ρ(4 or even)=ρ(4)+ρ(even)ρ(4 and even)=452+2452(4521)=46.15%

 

 

GA

GingerAle Dec 12, 2018
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(Facepalm)......that was too easy, GA......

 

I should have consulted one of your learned  chimps.....even THEY could have done better than I did!!!!

 

 

 

cool cool cool

CPhill  Dec 12, 2018

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