In a deck of 52 cards, you draw one card, find the Odds in Favor of selecting a face card?

Question

In a deck of 52 cards, you draw one card, find the Odds in Favor of selecting a face card?

Answer 1

well there are 4 suits and only the jack, queen, and king are face cards.. so that means there are 12 total face cards.

therefore...12/52 = 3/13

Answer 2

Let P be the probability of success.  The odds of winning are defined as

1/p - 1 : 1

think of probability as the number of success divided by the number of total possible outcomes

think of odds as the number of failures to the number of success.

In other words, let f be the number of ways to fail.  Let s be the number of success

Probability P, the success probability, is s / (f + s)

odds of success are = f : s

odds of failure are = s : f

s = 12

f = 40

odds are:

40 : 12