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Here’s your shmoop du jour: A card is drawn at random from a 52 card deck.
What is the probability of drawing both a
red card and a queen? For this problem, let’s assume Criss Angel
is at least 500 yards away. And here are the potential answers…
Ooh, a card problem. Vegas, baby!
So… even if we haven’t lost our shirt at the tables…
…hopefully we’re at least familiar with a card deck…
It has 52 cards, with 13 cards in each of 4 suits – the red suits are diamonds and
hearts; the black suits are clubs and spades.
So ONE card is drawn and they are asking for a RED QUEEN.
Uh… no – these red queens.
Well, there are only 2 cards that are both red AND a queen – the queen of hearts and
the queen of diamonds.
So the odds of pulling EITHER of those cards is a 2 out of 52 chance or, if we reduce the
fraction…
…1 out of 26
The answer is E.
As in, “Even money.”