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Question 738805: Two cards are drawn without replacement from an ordinary deck, find the probability that the second is a face card given that the first is a face card
Answer by Ed Parker(21)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A standard deck has 52 cards, 12 of which are face cards.
We are given that one face card has been drawn.  That means
we are given that we now have a 51-card deck with only 11 
face cards, so the answer is 11 chances out of 51 or .

Edwin
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