SOLUTION: Two cards are drawn without replacement from an ordinary deck. Find the probability that the second is a face card, given that the first is a face card. What is the conditional

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Question 1188353: Two cards are drawn without replacement from an ordinary deck. Find the probability that the second is a face card, given that the first is a face card.
What is the conditional probability?
Answer by ikleyn(52754) About Me  (Show Source):
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In a standard deck, there are 52 cards, of them 12 cards are face cards.


Since one face card was drawn first, 51 cards remained; of them 11 are face cards;


Therefore, the probability to draw a face card at the second draw is  11%2F51,

under the given condition.

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