two cards are selected from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. the first is replaced before the second card is selected. find the probability of selecting a diamond and then selecting a queen.

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anonymous · Answer

diamonds are 1 out of the four possible colors, so 1/4

queen is 1 out of 13 different card types, so 1/13BUT, you combine them
so 1/4 multiplied by (4, number of queens)/(51, number of cards left in deck),

anonymous · Answer

1/51, this is all presuming you do not take a queen the first time, which does not happne in this particular problem "theoretically"

anonymous · Answer

(1/4)(4/51)?

anonymous · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

1 in 4 is simplified from 13 in 52