You draw a card from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability that you do not draw a face card?

Question

 Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

In a standard deck of cards, there are three face cards per suit (jack, queen, and king), and there are four suits in the deck (spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds). Hence, there are a total of 12 face cards in a standard deck. The remaining 40 cards are not face cards, so the probability of not drawing a face card is 40/52 = 10/13, a very high probability.