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A card is picked from a standard deck of 52 cards. Determine the odds against and the odds in favor of selecting a black card.

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  1. This is just like your number cube problem.
    How many black cards?
    How many non-black (red) cards?
    odds in favor ... #black : #red
    odds against ... the other way

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