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Consider a standard deck of playing cards, what percent of cards are face cards?

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Each suits contains 3 face cards (king, queen and jack). Since there are four suits in a deck of cards, this means that there are 12 face cards in a deck. But since there 52 cards in a deck, that means the face cards make up 12/52 × 100% = 23.1% of the deck.

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