A "hungry" undergraduate student was looking for a way of making some extra money. The student turned to a life of vice - gambling. To be a good gambler, he needed to know the probability of certain events. Help him out by answering the following question. The probability of drawing a face card (king, queen or jack) of any suit from a deck of 52 ordinary playing cards in one draw is _________.
A) 0.020
B) 0.231
C) 0.077
D) 0.019

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In a standard deck of 52 cards, there are 12 face cards (3 face cards per suit × 4 suits = 12 face cards). Therefore, the probability of drawing a face card is 12/52, which simplifies to 3/13, or approximately 0.231.

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