Homework Help: Math/ Probability

Posted by lisa on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 11:34pm.

Two cards are drawn without replacement from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability that both are spades if the first card drawn was a spade?

Math/ Probability - drwls, Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 6:37am
It equals the fraction of remaining cards that are spades AFTER one has already been removed. That would be 3/51 or 1/17.

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