A regular deck of 52 cards has 13 cards (including 3 face cards) in each of 4 suits.     The sum of the probability that an event will happen and the probability that the event will not happen is 1. Consider the experiment of selecting 1 card at random from a complete deck of 52 cards. Compute the probabilities of the events in the following (enter your answers as fractions):

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A regular deck of 52 cards has 13 cards (including 3 face cards) in each of 4 suits.
 

 
The sum of the probability that an event will happen and the probability that the event will not happen is 1. Consider the experiment of selecting 1 card at random from a complete deck of 52 cards. Compute the probabilities of the events in the following (enter your answers as fractions):
 
a. Not drawing a heart

 


 
b. Not drawing a face card

 


 
c. Drawing a spade, a club, or a nonface card

 


 
d. Not drawing a black face card

 
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