SOLUTION: Two cards are drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that a king and a queen are drawn?
a 1/169 b 2/169 c 8/663 d 14/663 e 4/169
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a 1/169 b 2/169 c 8/663 d 14/663 e 4/169
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Question 329396: Two cards are drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that a king and a queen are drawn?
a 1/169 b 2/169 c 8/663 d 14/663 e 4/169 Found 2 solutions by stanbon, Edwin McCravy:Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Two cards are drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that a king and a queen are drawn?
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4*4 = 16 ways to pick and kind and queen pair.
52C2 = (52*51)/(1*2) = 1326 ways to pick a random pair
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Ans: 16/1326 = 8/663
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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a) 1/169 b) 2/169 c) 8/663 d) 14/663 e) 4/169
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There are 4 ways to pick a suit for the king and 4 ways to pick
a suit for the queen. That's 16 ways to have a successful combination.
There are 52C2 ways to have any combination of 2 cards, successful or not.
So the desired probability is , choice c.
Edwin
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