Homework Help: Math

Posted by jade on Monday, January 11, 2010 at 1:33am.

Your mom is a sporting person, so when it's close to your bedtime, she will have a contest with you to see if you get to stay up and extra half-hour to play a computer game. You get to draw a card from a well-shuffled deck. If you draw a face card, an ace, or any heart, she'll "have a heart" and let you stay up. If you draw any other card, you lose and go ahead to bed. Who has the best chance of winning, you or your Mom?

Math - drwls, Monday, January 11, 2010 at 1:42am
The person with the most qualifying cards in the deck has the best chance. There are 12 face cards and 4 aces. There are also 9 hearts that are not aces or face cards. You can only win with 25 cards out of 52. That is less than half the deck.

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