Question

A card is drawn from a well-shuffled pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probability
of getting
(i) a red card
(ii) a king
(iii) a card of spades.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. 26/52 = 1/2

2. 2/52 = 1/26

3. 13/52 = 1/4

Answer 2

Answer:

Total number of possible outcomes =52

Let E be the event that the drawn card is neither a king nor a queen.

Total number of kings and queens =4+4=8

∴, there are 52−8=44 cards that are neither king nor queen.

Total number of favourable outcomes =44

∴ Required probability=P(E)=

Totalnumberofoutcomes

Favourableoutcomes

=

52

44

=

13

11