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Question 62812: Two cards are selected without replacement from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that both cards are the same color (i.e., either both black or both red)? Answer by joyofmath(189) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Two cards are selected without replacement from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that both cards are the same color (i.e., either both black or both red)?
The first card is either black or red.
Once the first card is picked there are 51 cards left and 25 of those are the same color as the one picked and the chance of picking one of that same color = .
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