A king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck of 52 playing cards and remaining cards are well-shuffled. A card is drawn from the remaining cards at random. Find the probability of getting a red queen.

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Detailed Solution

Given that from a pack of 52 playing cards, the king, queen and jack of clubs are removed. One card is selected from the remaining cards.
We need to find the probability of getting a red queen.
Probability of an event E is defined as:

P (E) = \frac{Number of favorable outcomes}{Total number of possible outcomes}

A deck of cards contains 52 cards in it, that are 13 spade cards, 13 heart cards, 13 diamond cards and 13 club cards.
Three cards are removed from the pack of 52 cards.
Therefore, the remaining cards in the pack are:
52 – 3 = 49
Therefore, the total number of possible outcomes is 49.
There are a total of 2 red queen cards in the pack, therefore, the total number of favorable outcomes will be 2.
Let