SOLUTION: if you are dealt two cards successively (with replacement of the first)from a standard 52 card deck, find the probability of getting a face card on the first card and an ace on the

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Question 850020: if you are dealt two cards successively (with replacement of the first)from a standard 52 card deck, find the probability of getting a face card on the first card and an ace on the second. (face cards include the king, queen and jack)
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if you are dealt two cards successively (with replacement of the first)from a standard 52 card deck, find the probability of getting a face card on the first card and an ace on the second. (face cards include the king, queen and jack)
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Replacement results in the selection results being independent.
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P(face AND ace) = (12/52)(4/52) = (3/13)(1/13) = 4/169
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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