MHB Find P(spade or face card or 3 or club)

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The discussion focuses on calculating probabilities from a standard deck of 52 cards. The first problem requires finding the probability of drawing a spade, face card, 3, or club, while the second involves determining the probability of drawing a specific sequence of cards without replacement. Participants express frustration over the lack of guidance and the need for assistance in solving these problems rather than a full lesson. There is a clear request for help with the specific worksheet questions to gain more practice. The conversation highlights the importance of showing work for better understanding and verification of solutions.
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a card is drawn from a standard deck with 52 cards. Find P(spade or face card or 3 or club). Write your answer as a fully reduced fraction?5)

five cards are drawn from a standard deck with 52 cards without replacement. find the probability that the first card is a heart, the second is a spade, the third is a spade, the fourth is a heart, and the fifth is a diamond. Write your answer as a fully reduced fraction
 
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You forgot to show your work...so we can't check it...
Please post your work...and where you're stuck...thank you.
 
I haven't really worked on it because I am not sure where to be as well as what exactly to do for the problems
 
rainbow said:
I haven't really worked on it because I am not sure where to be as well as what exactly to do for the problems
We can't conduct a classroom at this site.
Was your teacher absent?
 
I am trying to get help on these specific problems that I am being asked on a worksheet that is all I am not asking to get taught it again since I JUST NEED HELP SOLVING THE QUESTIONS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN MORE PRACTICE WITH THESE TYPE OF PROBLEMS
 
Here is a little puzzle from the book 100 Geometric Games by Pierre Berloquin. The side of a small square is one meter long and the side of a larger square one and a half meters long. One vertex of the large square is at the center of the small square. The side of the large square cuts two sides of the small square into one- third parts and two-thirds parts. What is the area where the squares overlap?

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