Question

A standard deck of playing cards has 13 cards in each of four suits: hearts, clubs, diamonds, and spades. Two cards are chosen from the deck at random. What is the probability of choosing one club and one spade, without replacement?
A. 25/102
B.13/102
C.13/204
D.1/2

Answer 1

There are 52 cards in the deck.

Picking a spade would be 13/52 which reduces to 1/4

After the first card is picked there are 51 cards left, picking a club would be 13/51

Picking both would be 1/4 x 13/51 = 13/204

The answer is C.