Answer to Question #8101 in Statistics and Probability for Neil Schliewe

Question #8101

If 2 cards are drawn from a normal deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that both cards will be spades?

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There 1/4*52 spades in the deck.Probability to pick a spade taking single card is 1/4. Due to multiplication rule probability to pick two cards-spades is 1/4*1/4=1/16

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03.04.12, 15:21

In fact this question is a little bit tricky. If we consider drawing one card, putting it back in the deck, regardless if it is a spade or not, then reshuffling the deck and drawing the second card, the probability is 1/4 x 1/4 =1/16 This is the same as 1/4 x 1/4 = 1/16.Or we can consider experiment as picking two cards at a time. For each of them probability to turn out spade is 1/4. On the other hand, if we draw firstly one card& it is spade with probability 1/4. If a second card drawn, there's one less spade in the deck, so the probability on the second draw is 12/51. The probability of drawing two spades from a deck is 0.25 x 12/51 = 0.058824 This is called sampling without replacement. In quality control, it is very common to sample without replacement as bad parts are discarded.

Neil Schliewe

03.04.12, 15:12

Don't you have to account for the fact that this is a dependent event? Taking 2 cards the second card should be only 12/51 - correct?

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