SOLUTION: You are dealt two cards successively ( without replacement)from a shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability that the first card is a king and the second card is a que

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Question 62811: You are dealt two cards successively ( without replacement)from a shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability that the first card is a king and the second card is a queen.
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You are dealt two cards successively ( without replacement)from a shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability that the first card is a king and the second card is a queen.
The probability that the first card is a king = 4/52.
After the first card is drawn there are 51 left, 4 of those are queens if the first card picked was a king so the probability of a queen on the second card chosen = 4/51.
So, the combined probability of a king followed by a queen = %284%2F52%29%284%2F51%29+=+16%2F2652+=+.00603+ = .603%.