Question

One card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. The probability that it is a red ace card, is ______.

Options

• `1/13`

• `1/26`

• `1/52`

• `1/2`

Answer 1

One card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. The probability that it is a red ace card, is `bbunderline(1/26)`

Explanation:

Let E = event of getting a red card, which is an ace card.

S = Total elements in sample space

⇒ n(S) = 52 and n(E) = 2

We know that,

Probability of any event (E) = `("Number of favourable outcomes")/("Total number of outcomes")`

⇒ P(E) = `(n(E))/(n(S)) = 2/52 = 1/26`