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The jack, the queen and the king of hearts are lost from a pack of 52 playing cards. The rest are shuffled and one card is drawn at random. What is the probability that the card drawn is a heart?

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Step-by-Step Solution

Three cards are missing, so 49 remain, and all three lost cards were hearts. Hearts left = 13 - 3 = 10, so ignores the loss altogether; corrects the denominator but forgets that the numerator also drops; is 10 out of the original 52.
Answer: B)

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