SOLUTION: two cards are dealt from a pack of ordinary playing cards. find the probability that the second card dealt is a heart?

Question 752803: two cards are dealt from a pack of ordinary playing cards. find the probability that the second card dealt is a heart?

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

You can reason out that it's just as likely
to be one suit as any of the four suits, so 
the answer has to be .  

However you can do it this longer way, 
remembering that AND tells us to MULTIPLY 
probabilities and OR tells us to ADD them.  



Edwin

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