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A single card is drawn from a well-shuffled, standard deck of playing cards. What is the probability of drawing ether a diamond or a red card?
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There are 13 diamonds (which are red) and 13 hearts (which are also red), so there are a total of 26 red cards in the deck. However, we need to be careful not to double count the diamonds since they are also red cards. So, we don't add the number of diamonds to Show more…
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