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A card is dealt from a standard poker deck. Find the probability of being dealt a jack given you were dealt a black card

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Given,

The number of cards in a deck is 52.

The number of cards of jeck is 4.

The dealth card is black.

Required

The probability of being dealt a jack given you were dealt a black card.

The number of black jack is 2.

The number of total black cards is 26.

The probability of jack is,


\begin{gathered} P(jack)=(2)/(26) \\ =(1)/(13) \end{gathered}

Hence, the probability of jack is 1/13.

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