Two cards are randomly selected from a 52card deck What is t

Two cards are randomly selected from a 52-card deck. What is the probability that the draw will

yield an ace and a face card?

Solution

There are 52C2   = 1326 ways to pick 2 cards in that order.

There are 4 ways to pcik an ace, and 12 ways to pick a face card. Those are 4*12 = 48 ways in total.

Hence

P(ace and face) = 48/1326 = 0.036199095 [ANSWER]