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Q.A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled pack of 5252 cards. Find the probability that it is a face card or a spade.

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Let FF = "the card is a face card" and SS = "the card is a spade" (using SS here for the spade event). A pack has 1212 face cards (J, Q, K in each of 44 suits) and 1313 spades.

P(F)=1252,P(S)=1352.P(F)=\frac{12}{52}, \qquad P(S)=\frac{13}{52}.

The overlap F∩SF\cap S = "spade face cards" = jack, queen, king of spades = 33 cards, so P(F∩S)=352P(F\cap S)=\dfrac{3}{52}.

By the addition theorem,

P(F∪S)=P(F)+P(S)−P(F∩S)=1252+1352−352=2252=1126.P(F\cup S)=P(F)+P(S)-P(F\cap S)=\frac{12}{52}+\frac{13}{52}-\frac{3}{52}=\frac{22}{52}=\frac{11}{26}. …

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