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

Total numbers of elementary events are 52

Let E be the event of getting an ace


The numbers of favorable events are: 4


P (an ace) = P (E) = 4/52 = 1/13


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