Q32 of 50 Page 1

Five cards – the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds, are well shuffled with their face downwards. One card is then picked up at random.

(a) What is the probability that the drawn card is the queen?


(b) If the queen is drawn and put aside, and a second card is drawn, find the probability that the second card is (i) an ace (ii) a queen.


There are five possible outcomes.


We know that probability of an event E, P (E)


(a) P (queen) = 1/5


(b) If queen is drawn and put aside, only 4 cards are left i.e. possible outcomes.


(i) P (ace) = 1/4


(ii) Since there is no queen card left now,


P (queen) = 0


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