Question

You are dealt one card from a standard 52-card deck. Find the probability of being dealt a five.

Answer 1

1/13

Explanations:

Probability is the likelihood or chance that an event will occur. Mathematically;

`\text{Probability}=\frac{Expected\text{ outcome}}{Total\text{ outcome}}`

Since there are 52 cards in a deck of cards, hence the total outcome will be 52.

Next is to get the expected outcome. Since we need the probability of being dealt a five and there 4 fives in a deck of cards. The expected outcome will be 4

The required probability is expressed as:

`\begin{gathered} \text{ Pr(dealt with a five)=}(4)/(52) \\ \text{ Pr(dealt with a five)=}(1)/(13) \end{gathered}`

Hence the probability of being dealt a five is 1/13