A card is picked at random from a standard deck of cards. What is the sample space for this experiment if you were trying to find P (face card) ?

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Regan Chen

18 April, 19:09

A card is picked at random from a standard deck of cards. What is the sample space for this experiment if you were trying to find P (face card) ?

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Miriam · Answer 1

There are 52 cards in a deck. Each deck has 4 suits. Each suit has a jack, queen and king.

Therefore if all 4 suits have 3 face cards, then there's a total of 12 face cards in a deck.

Therefore there is a 13 in 52 chance that the card chosen would be a face card.