Question

Two cards are drawn without replacement from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability of choosing a spade for the second card drawn, if the first card, drawn without replacement, was a spade? Express your answer as a fraction or a decimal number rounded to four decimal places.

Answer 1

Answer:

12/51 or 0.2353

Step-by-step explanation:

There are 13 spades in a deck of 52 cards.

If the first card drawn is a spade and it is not replaced, we will have 51 cards, of which 12 are spades.

So the probability of drawing a spade for the second card is 12/51 ~ 0.2353