Multiple choice

One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of $52$ cards. Calculate the probability that the card will be a black card

  1. $\dfrac{1}{2}$
  2. $\dfrac{5}{6}$
  3. $\dfrac{25}{52}$

  4. None of these
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Explanation

There are 26 black cards (13 spades, 13 clubs) in a 52-card deck. Probability = 26 / 52 = 1/2.

AI explanation

Using the classical definition of probability, we divide the favourable outcomes by the total outcomes. A deck has 52 cards and exactly half of them, which is 26, are black. The probability is 26 divided by 52, which simplifies to 1/2.

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