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A standard deck with 52 cards, which has 26 red cards and 26 black, is
shuffled:
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What's the probability that the top card is the same color as the
bottom card?
Exactly 50%
🎉 Correct!
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How many ways are there to arrange the letters in the word
“F LOOD ” such that the two O 's are not next to each other?
24
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36
60
120
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Bombus, the bumblebee, wants to move from the top-left cell to the
bottom-right cell containing honey.
Each time he moves, he can only take a step to a neighboring cell that
moves him to the right:
How many ways does he have of reaching the honey in the last
cell?
89
128
144
268
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1024
🔎 Incorrect
If you randomly pick a card from the ten here, the probability of picking
an odd value is equal to the probability of picking an even value — the
ace has a value of 1 :
Picking two distinct cards from the ten above, does the sum of the
two values have a higher probability of being odd or even?
🔎 Incorrect
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Our chapter on counting will teach you several visual and arithmetic
tricks for organizing and counting objects in a variety of ways. To learn
more, you can explore what's in this chapter.
Our chapter on probability will show you how to apply these counting
strategies to determine the real-life probability of events. It also delves
into more complicated ways to select objects, including ways to calculate
all possible combinations that can be selected from a group. To learn
more, you can explore what's in this chapter.
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