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Question 438328: If two cards are drawn at random without replacement from a standard deck, find the probability that the second card is red, given that the first card was a heart.
Please and thankyou very much. Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There are 26 red cards and 26 black cards in a deck
Hearts and diamonds are red, so if the 1st card is a
heart, it is red.
There are then 25 red cards left, and there are 25 + 26 = 51 cards
left. The probability of drawing a 2nd card that is red
is
