e) What is the probability of picking a spade? Round answer to 3 decimal places. \( \square \)

In a standard deck of 52 playing cards, there are 4 suits: hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. Each suit contains 13 cards. To find the probability of picking a spade, you simply take the number of spades (13) and divide it by the total number of cards (52). So, the probability is \( \frac{13}{52} = \frac{1}{4} = 0.250 \). When rounding to three decimal places, the probability remains 0.250. You can easily visualize this by imagining drawing cards from the deck—1 in every 4 cards you pick is statistically a spade!