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Question
All the red face cards are removed from a pack of 52 playing cards. A card is drawn at random from the remaining cards, after reshuffling them. Find the probability that the drawn card is a face card.
Solution
Solution:
face card are removed from a pack of 52 playing card = 6
Total favorable outcomes = 52 – 6 = 46
Number of face cards in the remaining pack = 6
`P[E] = 6/46= 3/23`
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