Chapter 0.5, Problem 8E

To determine

To find: The odds in favor of drawing a heart and then find the odds against drawing an ace.

Answer to Problem 8E

  $13:39$ and $48:4$

Explanation of Solution

Given information:

A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards.

Calculation:

There are 13 hearts in a deck meaning there are 13 successes. The remaining 39 cards are not hearts so they are failures.

So it would be $13:39$ .

There are 4 aces in a deck of cards. The remaining 48 cards are not aces. The problem is to know the odds of not drawing an ace. The 48 cards that are not aces are successes. The 4 aces in the deck are failures.

So, we get $48:4$ .