document.write( "Question 1155656: A stack of playing cards contains 4 jacks, 5 queens, 3 kings, and 3 aces. Two cards will be randomly selected from the stack. What is the probability that a queen is chosen and replaced, and then a queen is chosen again?
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document.write( "     A stack of playing cards contains 4 jacks, 5 queens, 3 kings, and 3 aces. Two cards are randomly selected  \r\n" );
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document.write( "     from the stack with replacement. What is the probability that a queen is chosen, and then a queen is chosen again?\r\n" );
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document.write( "The solution and the answer are  P =  =  = .\r\n" );
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document.write( "Here 15 = 4 + 5 + 3 + 3 is the total number of playing cards in the stack.\r\n" );
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