Q.A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. Classify each of the following as a simple or compound event:

Count how many of the 52 cards satisfy each description — a count of exactly 1 is simple, 2 or more is compound.

A standard deck has 52 cards: 13 ranks (Ace to King) in each of 4 suits (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades).

1. Drawing the king of hearts: exactly ONE card in the whole deck is the king of hearts, so this event $=\{K\heartsuit\}$ has $1$ sample point — a simple event.
2. Drawing a king: there is one king in each of the 4 suits, so this event $=\{K\heartsuit, K\diamondsuit, K\clubsuit, K\spadesuit\}$ has $4$ sample points — a compound event.
3. Drawing a face card: the face cards are Jack, Queen, and King in each of the 4 suits, giving $3 \times 4 = 12$ cards in total — this event has $12$ sample points — a compound event. …

A common confusion is treating 'drawing A king' (any of the four) as a simple event because the phrase names only one rank — but the classification depends on the NUMBER OF CARDS satisfying the description, and four different physical cards satisfy 'a king', ma …