SOLUTION: two cards are drawn from a set of ten cards numbered from one to ten, without replacing the first card. What's the probability that both cards have prime numbers on them????
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Question 693600: two cards are drawn from a set of ten cards numbered from one to ten, without replacing the first card. What's the probability that both cards have prime numbers on them???? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
In the numbers 1 to 10 there are exactly 4 prime numbers, namely 2, 3, 5, and 7.
The probability that the first card has a prime number is
The probability that the second card has a prime number, given that the first had a prime number is , since there are now only 3 prime number cards left out of 9 total cards left to choose from.
Since the two events described above are independent, the probability of both events is the product of the two probabilities. Multiply times
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