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One card is drawn from deck of 52 cards, each of the 52 cards being equally likely to be drawn. Find the probability that the ball drawn is red.

1/3
1/2
1/4
1/6

Correct Answer: 1/2

Explanation:

Total number of elementary events = 52

There are 26 red cards,out of which one red card can be drawn in $26 C 1$ ways =26.

So,required probability = 26/52 = 1/2

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