A card is selected from a standard deck of 52 playing cards.Find the probability that the card is a diamond or not a king?

I don't understand how to work it out.

1 Answer
Oct 14, 2017

4952(.942)

Explanation:

What you're trying to solve for is the union of A and B.

Let A be the probability of drawing a diamond, and let B be the probability of NOT drawing a king.

So, P(A)=1352 (there are 13 diamonds in the deck), and P(B)=4852 (there are 4 Kings in the deck, so there are 524=48 non-Kings).

The union of P(A) and P(B) is equal to P(A)+P(B)P(AB)

The intersection (AB) is what A and B have in common.

What do A and B have in common? Basically, how many non-Kings are diamonds? Well, there are 12 non-King diamonds.

So, the probability of selecting a non-King diamond from the deck is 1252.

Thus, P(AB)=P(A)+P(B)P(AB)=1352+48521252.

P(AB)=4952.