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A card is selected at random from a pack consisting of a total of 52 cards, including 4 queens and 4 kings. The card is not replaced. A second card is selected. Find the probability that the second card is a queen, given that the first card is a king.

User Brae
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analyze problme

the pack has 52 cards

four kings and four queens

rest will be detonated as x

The first card is already a king, so one king is deducted from the pile

so now there is 51 cards, so

4/51 is the chance you will draw a king

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