You draw 2 cards from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. After you draw the first card, you do not replace it in the deck. The probability of drawing the ace of spades on your first draw is 1/56. What is the probability of P(get queen of hearts on second draw | get ace of spades on first draw)?

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anonymous · Answer

@sarahusher can you help me on this please?

reemii · Answer

In a deck of N cards, what is the probability of drawing one particular card ?

anonymous · Answer

1/52

reemii · Answer

with an arbitrray number of cards N, it is 1/N.

the question asked is, in the deck where the 1-spades is removed, what is hte probability of drawing Q-hearts. That is simply 1/(number of cards remaining) = 1/51.

anonymous · Answer

ohhh i get it!!! thank you @reemii I deeply appreciate it

reemii · Answer

okay :)