There are two red kings in a standard deck of 52 cards. So the odds of drawing one of those two cards is:
2 (red kings) / 52 (cards)
This reduces to 1/26, which comes out to about 3.85%.
That is the same as the odds of drawing a specific letter from an envelop containing slips of paper with the whole English alphabet.
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you would have a 26% chance of getting it
2 red kings out of 52 cards total is 2/52 or 1/26
1 in 2652. The odds of drawing one red king are 1 in 52. The odds of drawing the second are 1 in 51. Multiply 52 by 51, and you get 2652. 1/676
The probability of drawing a king or a red card from a standard deck of 52 cards is (4 + 26 - 1) in 52, or 29 in 52, or about 0.5577. There are four kings and 26 red cards, of which one is a king. Simply count the number of desired outcomes (29) and divide by the number of possible outcomes (52).
There are 6 red face cards in a standard deck of 52 cards; the Jack, Queen, and King of Hearts and Diamonds. The probability, then, of drawing a red face card from a standard deck of 52 cards is 6 in 52, or 3 in 26, or about 0.1154.