Question 23678: Two cards are drawn at random from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability that both cards are aces? Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! I'm assuming that you are NOT replacing the first card and then drawing the second. For the first card drawn , probability of ace is 4/52. Then for the second card, after the first ace is drawn, there are only 3 aces left out of 51 cards, so probability is 3/51. The probability of performing two independent activities such as this is actually the product of the probabilities: . This reduces to .
