You draw a card at random from a standard deck of 52 cards.Find the probability that the card is a spade given that it is not a diamond.
A)0.333
B)0.077
C)0.000
D)0.500
E)0.250

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Given that the card is not a diamond, we have 39 cards left (52 total cards minus 13 diamonds). There are 13 spades in a deck, so the probability of drawing a spade from the remaining cards is 13/39, which simplifies to 1/3 or approximately 0.333.

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