Question

A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. find the probability of: [5 marks]


a. card is jack 1


b. king of red color 1


c. card of diamond 1


d. king or a queen 1


e. non-king card

Answer 1

$\textbf {Hey there, here is the solution.}$

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Total number of cards in a deck = 52

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Question (a):

Number of Jacks in the card deck = 4

P(Jack) = 4/52

P(Jack) = 1/13

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Question (b):

Number of kings (red) in the card deck = 2

P(King(red) ) = 2/52

P(King(red) ) = 1/26

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Question (c):

Number of diamonds in the card deck = 13

P(diamonds) =13/52

P(diamonds) = 1/4

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Question (d):

Number of kings or queens in the card deck = 8

P(kings or queens) = 8/52

P(kings or queens) = 2/13

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Question (e):

Number of non-kings in the card deck = 48

P(non-king) = 48/52

P(non-king) = 12/13

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