Question

A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting a king.

Answer 1

Given: A well shuffled standard deck of 52 cards; one card is drawn at random.

Step-wise calculation:

1. Total number of equally likely outcomes = 52.

2. Number of favourable outcomes (king cards) = 4 (K♠, K♥, K♦, K♣).

3. Probability = `"Favourable"/"Total"`

= `4/52`

= `1/13`

= 0.076923

The probability of getting a king is `1/13`.