Question 416427
Two cards are drawn without replacement from an ordinary deck of 52
playing cards. What is the probability that the second card is a spade if
the first card was not a spade? 
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Since you know that the first card was not a spade, then all 13
spades are still in the deck.  So you will be drawing the second 
card from a deck of 51 cards, 13 of which are spades so there are 
13 ways out of 51 cards so the probability is 13/51, choice (c)

Edwin</pre>