Question

What is the probability of randomly drawing 1 card that is both a red card and a face card, out of a standard deck of 52 playing cards?

Answer 1

38/52 = 19/26 because there are a lot of face cards and there are even more red cards than face cards combined. I added up the total number of face cards (12) and total number of red cards (26, including aces and face cards).

Answer 2

3/26

Explanation:

Number of cards in a deck = 52

Number of red cards = 26 (Half the decks are red)

Number of face card that is red = 6 (There are 3 faces in each red suit)

P(both red and is a face)

= 6/52

= 3/26