SOLUTION: A card is selected at random from a standard deck of playing cards. Compute the probability that the card is a 6. (Enter the probability as a fraction.)

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Question 1155515: A card is selected at random from a standard deck of playing cards.
Compute the probability that the card is a 6. (Enter the probability as a fraction.)
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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A card is selected at random from a standard deck of playing cards.
Compute the probability that the card is a 6. (Enter the probability as a fraction.)
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There are 52 cards.
4 of them are sixes.
---> 4/52
= 1/13

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20081) About Me  (Show Source):
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It's selecting one of these 4 cards:

6♥  6♦  6♠ 6♣

out of these 52 cards:

A♥   2♥   3♥   4♥   5♥   6♥   7♥   8♥  9♥  10♥  J♥  Q♥  K♥ 
A♦   2♦   3♦   4♦   5♦   6♦   7♦   8♦  9♦  10♦  J♦  Q♦  K♦
A♠   2♠   3♠   4♠   5♠   6♠   7♠   8♠  9♠  10♠  J♠  Q♠  K♠  
A♣   2♣   3♣   4♣   5♣   6♣   7♣   8♣  9♣  10♣  J♣  Q♣  K♣ 

That's 4 ways out of 52 it can happen.

That's a 4/52 probability, that reduces to a probability 
of 1/13.

Edwin