Question

The king, queen and jack of diamond are removed from a deck of $52$ playing cards and then well shuffled. Now one card is drawn at random from the remaining cards. Determine the probability that the card drawn is:
(i) A face card
(ii) A red card

Answer 1

In 52 playing cards the king queen and jack of diamond are removed so remaining cards are 49

There is remaining 3 king ,3 queen and 3 jack

i)Total remaining face cards are 9

Probability of face card=9/49

ii)Remaining red cards are 26-3=23

Probability of red cards=23/49