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One card is selected from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting

a face cards

There are total 52 cards in a pack of cards.

In which face cards are (King, Queen and Jack).


⇒ Each type has four cards.


⇒ Total face cards = 3× 4


⇒ Face cards = 12


⇒ Probability of getting a face card –


⇒ P(face card) =


⇒ P(face cards) =


⇒ P(face cards) =


∴ Probability of getting face card =


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