How do you find the probability of selecting not a face card from a standard deck of 52 playing cards?

1 Answer
May 7, 2018

color(blue)("Probability"=10/13~~0.769230769)

Explanation:

There are four suites in a deck, each containing three picture cards.

Total number of picture cards is:

4xx3=12

Number of cards in deck that are not picture cards:

52-12=40

These are the favourable outcomes.

Probability is:

("favourable outcomes")/("all possible outcomes")

:.

40/52=10/13

"Probability"=10/13~~0.769230769