Cards and the sum rule
A standard French-suited deck of playing cards contains 52 cards; 13 each of hearts (♥), spades (♠), diamonds (♦), and clubs (♣).
Assuming that you have a well-shuffled deck in front of you, the probability of drawing any given card is 1/52 ≈ 1.92%.
This exercise is part of the course
Fundamentals of Bayesian Data Analysis in R
Exercise instructions
- Calculate the probability of drawing any of the four aces! That is, calculate the probability of drawing 🂡 or 🂱 or 🃁 or 🃑 using the sum rule and assign it to
prob_to_draw_ace.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Calculate the probability of drawing any of the four aces
prob_to_draw_ace <- ___