Randomly drawn from a card deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of drawing a face card

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prathamesh_m · Answer

There are 3 face cards of each type, so can you find out the total number of face cards?

prathamesh_m · Answer

The answer would be
Number of face cards / Total number of cards(52)

pphalke · Answer

so what would that be? 3/52?

mathstudent55 · Answer

Read carefully:
"There are 3 face cards of each type"

prathamesh_m · Answer

No there are 3 face cards of each type(spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts)

pphalke · Answer

so then what do i do for calculation?

mathstudent55 · Answer

Are you familiar with playing cards?

pphalke · Answer

Yes

mathstudent55 · Answer

There are 13 face values of cards:
Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King

Each face value comes in 4 suits:
Spades, Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts.

When you multiply 13 by 4, you get the number of cards in a standard deck of cards:
4 * 13 = 52

The cards Jack, Queen, and King are called "face cards."
Since there are 3 face cards in each of 4 suits, how many total face cards are there?

mathstudent55 · Answer

Are you still there?

pphalke · Answer

Yes i am

pphalke · Answer

isn that like 12 cards @mathstudent55

mathstudent55 · Answer

Correct. 4 * 3 = 12.
There are 12 face cards.
There are 52 cards in total.
Now divide the number of face cards by the total number of cards, and reduce the fraction.