Question

One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting a face card.

Answer 1

Total number of outcomes = 52

Let E₂ be the event of getting a face card.

Number of favourable outcomes = 12

∴ P(getting a face card) = P(E₂) = `("Number of outcomes favourable to" E_2)/"Number of all possible outcomes"`

`= 12/52 = 3/13`

Thus, the probability of getting a face card is `3/13`.