Probability of single events

carat_frv20

A single card is drawn from a standard 52 card deck.Work out the probability of choosing

Reply 1

Hellllpppp

Original post by carat_frv20

A single card is drawn from a standard 52 card deck.Work out the probability of choosing

I think you’ve missed out part of the question

Reply 2

coolblackguy

hey! i think your question got cut off pls tell me the whole question and i could be able to help u

Reply 3

carat_frv20

Original post by coolblackguy

hey! i think your question got cut off pls tell me the whole question and i could be able to help u

ah sorry i didn't realise
--> A single card is drawn from a standard 52 card deck.
Work out the probability of choosing "a heart".
Give your answer in its simplest form.

Reply 4

carat_frv20

Original post by Hellllpppp

I think you’ve missed out part of the question

A single card is drawn from a standard 52 card deck.
Work out the probability of choosing "a heart".
Give your answer in its simplest form.

Reply 5

Sinnoh

Original post by carat_frv20

A single card is drawn from a standard 52 card deck.
Work out the probability of choosing "a heart".
Give your answer in its simplest form.

How many cards in total are hearts?

Reply 6

annabrownbridge

Original post by carat_frv20

ah sorry i didn't realise
--> A single card is drawn from a standard 52 card deck.
Work out the probability of choosing "a heart".
Give your answer in its simplest form.

Okay so think of how many suits there are. Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds and Spades. You should easily be able to get it from there. Let me know if you need any more help.

To be fair to every single person who has seen this question, it is extremely unfair to anyone who doesn't know anything about a card deck...

(edited 2 years ago)

Reply 7

carat_frv20

Original post by Sinnoh

How many cards in total are hearts?

i don't know

Reply 8

carat_frv20

Original post by carat_frv20

i don't know

Reply 9

carat_frv20

Original post by carat_frv20

the question was
--> A single card is drawn from a standard 52 card deck.
Work out the probability of choosing "a heart".
Give your answer in its simplest form.

Reply 10

Sinnoh

Original post by carat_frv20

So now can you say how many are hearts?

Reply 11

carat_frv20

Original post by Sinnoh

So now can you say how many are hearts?

i don't know if i should be counting the hearts or the cards that have the heart

Reply 12

annabrownbridge

Original post by carat_frv20

i don't know if i should be counting the hearts or the cards that have the heart

you should count the cards that have a heart, not the total amount of hearts :smile:

Reply 13

carat_frv20

Original post by Sinnoh

From top to bottom in that photo:
Clubs
Spades
Hearts
Diamonds

Each of the shapes is referred to as a 'suit', so a standard 52-card deck has 4 suit

i still didn't get it sorry

Reply 14

annabrownbridge

Original post by carat_frv20

i still didn't get it sorry

If a deck of 52 cards has 4 suits and 1 of them is hearts, what equation do you think you should do? :smile:

(edited 2 years ago)

Reply 15

carat_frv20

Original post by annabrownbridge

you should count the cards that have a heart, not the total amount of hearts :smile:

but i don't know how to put it on a fraction in simplest form🙂

Reply 16

annabrownbridge

Original post by carat_frv20

but i don't know how to put it on a fraction in simplest form🙂

okay so I will have to try and explain the question to you since you don't actually know how to do this, because without it you can't actually answer the question to its full extent and get all the available marks:

this deck has 52 cards and 4 suits. This means that you should do 52/4 to see how many cards are in each of the 4 suits.

This gives you 13 - so there are 13 cards with a heart on them.

This means that the probability of pulling a heart is 13/52 BUT this is not the simplest form.

To get this in its simplest form you can simply divide 52 by 13. This gives you 4. So 13 goes into 52, 4 times.

1 2 3 4
13,26,39,52

So with this information you can say that the chance of pulling a heart out of the deck is 1/4. This is its simplest form.

Hope this helped :smile:

(edited 2 years ago)