Exercise 1: Hearts and Face Cards, With the Union Rule — Possible Solution ==================================================================== GIVEN ------------------------------ A standard 52-card deck. Event A = "drawing a heart" (13 cards) Event B = "drawing a face card" (Jack, Queen, King - 12 cards total, 3 per suit) STEP 1: P(A) AND P(B) ------------------------------ P(A) = 13/52 = 1/4 P(B) = 12/52 = 3/13 STEP 2: P(A AND B) ------------------------------ The overlap is the hearts that are ALSO face cards: the Jack, Queen, and King of hearts - exactly 3 cards. P(A and B) = 3/52 STEP 3: APPLYING THE UNION RULE ------------------------------ P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B) = 13/52 + 12/52 - 3/52 = 22/52 = 11/26 STEP 4: CONFIRMING BY DIRECT COUNT ------------------------------ Cards satisfying "heart or face card": all 13 hearts, plus every face card that ISN'T a heart (12 total face cards - 3 heart face cards = 9 non-heart face cards). 13 + 9 = 22 cards out of 52 22/52 = 11/26, matching the union-rule result exactly. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ The union rule is applied using this chapter's own formula, correctly identifying and subtracting the 3-card overlap between hearts and face cards rather than double-counting them, and the result is independently confirmed by directly counting the qualifying cards rather than trusting the formula alone.