Question

Zhi and her friends moved on to the card tables at the casino. Zhi wanted to figure out the probability of drawing a king of clubs or an ace of clubs

Answer 1

Answer:

There is not enough information to the problem.

The things we know are:

Zhi wants to draw a king of clubs or an ace of clubs.

There is a 52 card deck, but we do not know which cards are in play.

Now, the probability of drawing two specific cards out of a deck of 52 cards is equal to:

P = 2/52 = 0.038.

Now, suppose that there are X cards in game, and Zhi knows the cards (and he can see that the king of clubs and the ace of clubs are not in the table, so the must be on the card pile), now the probability is bigger, because now we want to draw two specific cards out of 52 - X cards, so the probability now is:

p = 2/(52 - X)

and 52 - X is smaller than 52, so the denominator is smaller, which means that the probability is actually larger.