Question

I have a shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. A deck of cards has four different suits, with an even number of cards in each. I pick a card at random. What is the probability of me picking any card which is in the spades suit, as a decimal?

Answer 1

The probability is 0.25

Explanation:

Here is a probability question.

We want to know the probability of picking a card which is in the spades suit.

Now, what we know is that there are a total of 52 cards and we have 4 suites.

Each suite have equal number of cards. So definitely the number of cards in the spades suit will be 52/4 = 13 cards

Thus, the probability of picking any card in the spades suit = number of cards in the spades suit/ Total number of cards in the deck

Mathematically that would be 13/52 = 1/4 = 0.25