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A card is drawn from an ordinary pack of 52 cards and a gambler bets that, it is a spade or an ace. What are the odds against his wining this bet?

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To solve the problem of finding the odds against the gambler winning the bet that a card drawn from a standard deck is a spade or an ace, we will follow these steps: ### Step 1: Define the Events Let: - Event A = drawing a spade - Event B = drawing an ace ### Step 2: Calculate the Probability of Event A ...
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