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From a well shuffled pack of cards, a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of getting a black queen.

Total numbers of elementary events are 52

Let E be the event of drawing a black queen


Total numbers of favorable outcomes are 2


P (black queen) = P (E) = 2/52 = 1/26


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