One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the following. a) Probability of getting a queen.b) Probability of getting a club.

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One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the following.

a) Probability of getting a queen.b) Probability of getting a club.

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Introduction:

The probability of an event in an experiment is the number outcomes in the experiment that are favorable to the event, divided by the total number of possible outcomes in the experiment.

A standard deck of 52 cards has 4 suits having an equal number of cards each- spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds.

Each suit has 3 face cards- 1 King, 1 Queen, and 1 Jack. So, there are a total of 12 (= 4 × 3)face cards in the deck.

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There are 4 queens in a deck of 52 cards.

Then the probability of selecting a queen is as follows:

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Thus, the probability of selecting a queen is 0.076.

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