Ben tells his younger sister a number riddle and bets her that she cannot solve it. He says, "the sum of two numbers 24, and the difference of the two numbers is 7." Ben's sister quickly solves the problem using a system of equations. What is the SMALLER of the two numbers?

Consider an example of a deck of 52 cards: example set of 52 playing cards: 13 of each suit clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 jack queen king clubs diamonds hearts spades what is the probability of drawing three queens from a standard deck of cards, given that the first card drawn was a queen? assume that the cards are not replaced.