A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 playing cards
MATHEMATICS · Multi-part · CBSE · Mathematics · Probability · Probability
Problem
A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 playing cards. Let R denote the event that the card drawn is red and let Q denote the event that the card drawn is a queen.
(i) Find P(R).
(ii) Find P(Q).
(iii) Using your answers to parts (i) and (ii), determine P(R∪Q).
(iv) Check that the numerical values obtained satisfy the addition rule for the events R and Q. Show all working.