SOLUTION: given a standard deck of 52 cards. what is the probability that drawing one card: you will draw a card with a number divisible by 3?

Question 1015917: given a standard deck of 52 cards. what is the probability that drawing one card: you will draw a card with a number divisible by 3?
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, fractalier:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
3,6,9 are divisible by 3.
There are 4 suits of them.
There are 12 of them total.

Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Well, first you have to figure out how many cards have numbers divisible by three...
That would be the threes, the sixes, and the nines...there are 12 such cards in the deck...
Thus the probability of drawing one would be
12/52 = 3/13
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