Worked Examples · Example 4
Q.A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled pack of cards. Find the probability that it is a face card or a spade.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Let = "the card is a face card" and = "the card is a spade" (using here for the spade event). A pack has face cards (J, Q, K in each of suits) and spades.
The overlap = "spade face cards" = jack, queen, king of spades = cards, so .
By the addition theorem,
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