Asteria's card game.
Probability
Level
2
Asteria was playing a a card game with her brother. From a deck of cards, she removed the spade suit and the all the face cards from the heart and diamond suits. From the remaining cards, she asked her brother to choose a card. Find the probability that her brother gets a jack.
1/11
3/33
1/33
2/33
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1 solution
Total no. of cards in a deck - 52 cards No. of cards in the spade suit - 13 No. of face cards in heart suit - 3 No. of face cards in diamond suit - 3 Total no. of cards removed - 13 + 3 + 3 = `19 No. of cards left - 33 Now, probability of getting a face card is 1 because the face cards of spade, heart and diamond suits are removed. Therefore the probability is: 3 3 1