Question

Three cards are drawn from a deck without replacement. Find these probabilities. a. All are jacks. b. All are clubs. c. All are red cards.

Answer 1

There are 4 jacks in the deck.

13 are clubs and 26 are all red cards.

The computation for the following problems are shown below:

a. All are jacks

Computation: 4/52 * 3/51 * 2/50 = 1/5525

b. All are clubs

Computation: 13/52 * 12/51 * 11/50 = 11/850

c. All are red card

Computation: 26/52 * 25/51 * 24/50 = 2/17