A magician shuffles a standard deck of playing cards and allows an audience member to pull out a card, look at it, and replace it in the deck. Two additional people do the same. Find the probability that of the 3 cards drawn, at least 1 is a face card. (Round your answer to one decimal place.)

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Yair Schroeder

28 January, 07:59

A magician shuffles a standard deck of playing cards and allows an audience member to pull out a card, look at it, and replace it in the deck. Two additional people do the same. Find the probability that of the 3 cards drawn, at least 1 is a face card. (Round your answer to one decimal place.)

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Bambi · Answer 1

As usual, it's easiest to find the opposite probability and subtract from 1.

P (no face cards) = (10/13) ^3

Subtract that from 1 and you have your answer