Exercise

Cards and the sum rule

A standard French-suited deck of playing cards contains 52 cards; 13 each of hearts (♥), spades (♠), clubs (♦), and diamonds (♣). Assuming that you have a well-shuffled deck in front of you, the probability of drawing any given card is 1/52 ≈ 1.92%.

Instructions

100 XP

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.

Take Hint (-30 XP)