Two cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability of getting two faces if:

Question

a) the first card is replaced before the second card is drawn?
b) the first card is not replaced before the second card is drawn?

Answer 1

Since there are 12 face cards,
(a) 12/52 * 12/52
(b) 12/52 * 11/51