Question

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

Answer 1

Total number of outcomes = 52

Let E₆ be the event of getting a spade.

Number of favourable outcomes = 13

∴ P(getting a spade) = P(E₆) = `("Number of outcomes favourable to" E_6)/"Number of all possible outcomes"`

`=13/52 = 1/4`

Thus, the probability of getting a spade is `1/4`.