Question

What are the odds against drawing a face card?

Answer 1

Odds against drawing a face card are `3.333`

Explanation:

Odds against is given by number of unfavorable outcomes to number of favorable outcomes.

Here drawing a face card is a favourable event. As there are `12` face cards against a total of `52` cards in pack,

number of unfavourable outcomes are `52-12=40`

and number of favourable outcomes are `12`

Hence odds against are `40/12=10/3=3.333`