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A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that the drawn card is not an ace is

Total numbers of elementary events are: 52

Let E be the event of drawing card other than ace


Favorable numbers of events are: 52 – 4= 48


P (not drawing ace) = P (E) = 48/52 = 24/26 = 12/13

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