Hard
A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability that it is a face card?
Explanation
Explanation
A standard deck has 52 cards, of which 12 are face cards. So P(face card) = 12/52 = 3/13 in lowest terms.
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