Question

A standard deck of cards has four suits (hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs) each with 13 cards in it (1-10, jack, queen, and king). Face cards are all the jacks, queens, and kings. The red cards are any cards in the hearts or diamonds suits, while black cards are any cards in the spades or clubs suits.. . When drawing a card randomly from a deck, what is the probability that it will be either a black card or a face card?. . Type your answer as a fraction reduced to the simplest form, like this: 7/11

Answer 1

We are given with 13 cards in which each card has four shapes : diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades. In the deck, there are 52 cards all in all. The number of black cards in the deck is 26 while the number of face cards is 12 (jack, queen, king; 4 cards each). The total number of cards then is 38. Hence the probability is 38/52 or 19/26.