Two cards are selected at random without replacement from a well-shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of the

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aalyn [17]

4 years ago

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Two cards are selected at random without replacement from a well-shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of the

given event
A pair is drawn

Mathematics

2 answers:

snow_lady [41] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-19T22:38:39+03:00

snow_lady [41]4 years ago

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If two cards make a pair, I believe the answer is 1/104

Not sure tho..

Vadim26 [7] · Answer 2 · 2022-01-19T21:17:13+03:00

Vadim26 [7]4 years ago

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Consider the deck either as 4 suits of 13, or as 13 suits of 4.

<span>P(same suit) = 1 * 12/51 </span>
<span>P(~pair) = 1-P(pair) = 1 - 1 * 3/51</span>