Question

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

A two

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).

 

Hence, there are 4 cards of ‘2,’ one from each suit.

 

So, the probability of drawing a ‘2’ from a standard deck is equal to the ratio of number of cards of ‘2’ in the deck to the total number of cards.

 

That is,

P(2) = Number of card of 2/Total number of cards

        = 4/52

       = 1/13

P(2) = Number of card of 2/Total number of cards

        = 4/52

       = 1/13