Question

A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the theoreticalprobability of NOT drawing a jack? (Hint: A standard deck of cards contains 4 jacks.)P(Not jack) =

Answer 1

To calculate the probability in this case, it would be the favorable events divided by the total events:

Favorable events would be the case when a jack does NOT drawing, we know that there 4 jack and that the deck has 52 cards, therefore:

`\text{52 - 4 = 48}`

Therefore the probability would be:

`\text{P (NOT jack) = }(48)/(52)\text{ = }0.9230`

In other worlds, the probability of not drawing a jack is the 92.30%