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From a well- shuffled deck of 52 cards, one card is drawn at random. What is the probability of getting a queen?

Total numbers of elementary events are: 52


Let E be the event of getting a queen


Numbers of Favourable outcomes are : 4


P (E) = 4/52 = 2/ 26 = 1/13

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