If two cards are drawn without replacement from a deck, find the probability that the second card is red, given that the first c

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ard was a heart.

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Oksana_A [137] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-31T20:37:10+03:00

A full deck has 52 cards.

Half the cards are red, so 52/2 = 26 cards are red.

Hearts and diamonds are red.

Since the first card that was picked was hearts ( red), that means that there would be 25 red cards left and 51 total cards.

The probability the second card is red would be 25/51