Suppose you have a standard deck 52 cards (4 suits: hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades each suit has 13 cards (1/4 of the deck) and those 13 cards include one ace,and numbers 2 through 10 and 3 face cards: a jack a queen and king) suppose you pick a card at randome and then without replacement the first card you pick another card randomly.

1.) what is the probability that your second card is heart in general regardless of the card you drew first?

1 answer

The probability that your second card is a heart is 1/4, or 25%.