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Question
Five cards − the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds, are well-shuffled with their face downwards. One card is then picked up at random.
What is the probability that the card is the queen?
Solution
Five cards-the ten, jack, queen, king, and ace of diamonds are well shuffled with their face downwards of cards. One card is drawn at random.
TO FIND: Probability that The card is the queen.
total number of queens is 1
We know that PROBABILITY =`"Number of favourable event" /"Total number of event"`
Hence, the probability that the card taken out is queen is equal to =`1/5`
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