Question

For the following exercises, one card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of drawing the following: 

A club

Answer 1

Consider a standard deck of playing cards:

A standard deck contains 52 cards in 4 suits, 13 cards from each suit (clubs, hearts, diamonds and spades).

 

So, the probability of drawing a club from a standard deck will be equal to the ratio of number of club cards in the deck to the total number of cards.

 

That is,

P(club) = Number of club cards/Total number of cards

             = 13/52

             = 1/4