SOLUTION: Two cards are drawn in succession from an ordinary deck of 52 bridge cards without replacement of the first card. Find the probability that both cards are a Queen.

Question 220227: Two cards are drawn in succession from an ordinary deck of 52 bridge cards without replacement of the first card. Find the probability that both cards are a Queen.

Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 4 queens, so on the 1st draw
the probability of getting one is

Now there are cards in the deck,
and if you got a queen, there are 3 queens left
The probability of getting one is

When you want the probability of getting A and B
you multiply, so

The probability of drawing 2 queens in a row is 1/221

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