Question

What is the probability of selecting a jack from a deck of cards?

Answer 1

Given,

The number of total cards in a standard deck is 52.

Required

The probability of getting jack.

The number of jack in the standard deck of cards is 4.

The probability of getting jack is,

`\begin{gathered} P(jack)=\frac{number\text{ of jack}}{total\text{ cards}} \\ =(4)/(52) \\ =(1)/(13) \end{gathered}`

Hence, the probability of getting jack is 1/13.