The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a pack of 52 playing cards and then the remaining pack is well shuffled. One card is selected from the remaining cards. Find the probability of getting a king.

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Given that from a pack of 52 playing cards, the king, queen and jack of clubs are removed and one card is selected from the remaining cards.
We need to find the probability of getting a king.
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 4 king cards in the pack but one king is removed from the pack, so we are left with 3 king cards.
Therefore, the total number of favorable outcomes will be 3.
Let