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One card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a black face card?

Total numbers of elementary events are: 52


Let E be the event of drawing black face card


Favourable events are: 2 black face cards of jack, 2 black face cards of queen and 2 black face cards of king = 6


P (E) = 6/52 = 3/ 26

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