Question

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.

Answer 1

there are 4 kings and 4 queens in a deck

chance of getting a king is 1/52

chance of getting a queen without the king being put back would be 1/51

1/52 x 1/51 = 1/2652 probability