Answer to Question #277283 in Algebra for Clint

Question

Drawing a Card. If one card is drawn from a deck, find the probability of getting these results getting a king

Answer 1

The Event, E, is drawing a king from a deck of cards.

There are $52$ cards in a deck of cards. 

Hence, total number of outcomes:

$=52$

The number of Kings in a deck:

$=4$

$\therefore$ The number of favorable outcomes:

$=4$

Hence, the probability of this event occuring is 

$P(E)=\frac{4}{52}=\frac{1}{13}$