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

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

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Solution

Total number of cards in a well-shuffled deck = 52

Total number of spade cards = 13

P (getting a spade card) =`"Number of favourable outcomes"/"Total number of outcomes"`

= `13/52`

= `1/4`

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Chapter 16: Probability - Exercise 16.1 [Page 20]

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RD Sharma Mathematics [English] Class 10
Chapter 16 Probability
Exercise 16.1 | Q 6.11 | Page 20
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EXERCISE 14.1 | Q 14. (v) | Page 215
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