HELP!!! WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST! Ben randomly draws 2 cards, without replacement, from a standard 52-card deck of playing cards. What is the probability that Ben draws 2 cards of the same rank (two,
three, ..., queen, king, ace)? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Pete is making decorations for a dinner party. the instructions tell him to use 9 flowers for a medium-sized decoration. complete each statement to adjust the flowers for different-sized decorations based on these instructions.

Asays "we are both knaves" and b says nothing. exercises 24–31 relate to inhabitants of an island on which there are three kinds of people: knights who always tell the truth, knaves who always lie, and spies (called normals by smullyan [sm78]) who can either lie or tell the truth. you encounter three people, a, b, and c. you know one of these people is a knight, one is a knave, and one is a spy. each of the three people knows the type of person each of other two is. for each of these situations, if possible, determine whether there is a unique solution and determine who the knave, knight, and spy are. when there is no unique solution, list all possible solutions or state that there are no solutions. 24. a says "c is the knave," b says, "a is the knight," and c says "i am the spy."

What are the solutions of the system? y = x^2 + 2x +3y = 4x - 2a. (-1, -6) and (-3, -14)b. (-1, 10) and (3, -6)c. no solutiond. (-1, -6) and (3, 10)