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Question
One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting the jack of hearts.
Solution
Total number of cards in a well-shuffled deck = 52
Total number of Jack of hearts = 1
P (getting a Jack of hearts) =`"Number of favourable outcomes"/"Total number of outcomes"`
=` 1/52`
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