SOLUTION: If a person draws five cards from a standard deck (without replacing them), what is the probability that at least one of the cards is a face card? (Round your answer to one decimal

Question 721518: If a person draws five cards from a standard deck (without replacing them), what is the probability that at least one of the cards is a face card? (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If a person draws five cards from a standard deck (without replacing them), what is the probability that at least one of the cards is a face card? (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
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P(at least one face) = 1 - P(no face)
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# of ways to get no face cards: 40C5
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# of possible sets of 5 cards: 52C5
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1 - P(no face) = 1 - [40C5/52C5]
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= 1 - 0.2532
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= 0.7468
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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