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AP EAMCET · Maths · Probability

One card is drawn at random from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. The probability that the card drawn is a face card (Jack, Queen and King only) is

  1. A \(1 / 13\)
  2. B \(3 / 13\)
  3. C \(1 / 4\)
  4. D \(9 / 52\)
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(B) \(3 / 13\)

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\(\begin{aligned} & =\mathrm{P}[\text { Jack }]+\mathrm{P}[\text { Queen }]+\mathrm{P}[\text { King }] \\ & =\frac{4}{52}+\frac{4}{52}+\frac{4}{52}=\frac{12}{52}=\frac{3}{13}\end{aligned}\)