Question 798079: One card is drawn from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability that card is a jack, given that the card is red?
One card is drawn from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability that card is a heart, given that the card is red?
Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! One card is drawn from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability that card is a jack, given that the card is red?
"given that the card is red" means you should only consider red cards.
there are 2 red jacks, so
Ans:: 2/26 = 1/13
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One card is drawn from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability that card is a heart, given that the card is red?
# of red cards: 26
# of hearts that are red: 13
Ans: 13/26 = 1/2
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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