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Question
A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that the card drawn is:
a jack, queen or a king
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Solution
There are 4 jacks, 4 queens and 4 kings in a deck. Hence, the probability of drawing either of them is: (4+4+4)/52 = 3/13
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