Two cards are drawn in succession without replacement from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that the first card is a face card (jack, queen, or king) given that the second card is an eight?

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anonymous · Answer

so 3 kinds of face cards - 4 suits so 12 total possible face cards for odds of first card being face card of 12/52...23%

If we know second card is 8...if we drew the 8 first that didn't change the number of face cards just the pool of cards we are pulling from...12/51

if the second card had been a face card 11/51

If you don't look at the first card before you look at the second card the odds that the card is a face card is 12/51...

anonymous · Answer

thx