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fred randomly draws two cards from a standard deck of 52 cards he dose not replace the first card what is the probability there both jacks?

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4/52 * 3/51 = 12/2652 = .452%
User Esteban Collado
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The probability that the first card drawn is a jack is 4/52. If a jack was drawn first, there would be 3 jacks remaining in a total of 51 cards. Therefore the probability of drawing two jacks is given by:

P(2\ jacks)=(4)/(52)*(3)/(51)=(1)/(221)
User Taher Fattahi
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