SOLUTION: Consider the random experiment of drawing two cards out of a well-shuffled, honest deck of 52 cards. (Here the order of the cards does not matter.) Find the probability of drawing

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Question 1130819: Consider the random experiment of drawing two cards out of a well-shuffled, honest deck of 52 cards. (Here the order of the cards does not matter.) Find the probability of drawing two cards of the same suit.


Answer by greenestamps(13209) About Me  (Show Source):
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The first card can be any one of the 52 cards: probability 52/52 = 1.

The second card must be one of the remaining 12 cards of the same suit: probability 12/51 = 4/17.

The probability of getting two cards of the same suit is 1(4/17) = 4/17.