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Question
A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. The probability of getting a face card is ______.
Options
`1/2`
`3/13`
`4/13`
`1/13`
Solution
A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. The probability of getting a face card is `underlinebb(3/13)`.
Explanation:
Total number of cards = 52
Number of face cards = 12
∴ Probability = `"Number of face cards"/"Total number of cards"`
= `12/52`
= `3/13`
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