sorry i wrote the last problem wrong it should of read Find probability suppose one card is selected at random from an ordianry deck of 52 playing cards let A = event a queen is selected B = event a diamond is selected determine P(B|A) There awo two ways to find conditional probabilities Method 1 (reduce the sample space) You are given that you have selected a queen. So you are given that you drew one of the four Queens. So exactly one of those four queens you could have selected is a diamond. So P(B|A) = 1/4. Use the formula: P(X and Y) P(X|Y) = ------------- P(Y) P(B and A) P(B|A) = ------------- P(A) P(diamond and Queen) P(diamond|Queen) = ---------------------- P(Queen) P(diamond and queen) = P(queen of diamonds) = 1/52 P(Queen) = 4/52 1/52 1 P(diamond|Queen) = ------ = --- = 1/4 4/52 4 Either way it comes out 1/4. Edwin