Two cards are drawn without replacement from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability of choosing a jack and then, without replacement, another jack?
fraction or decimal rounded to 4 places
fraction or decimal rounded to 4 places
1 Answer
Apr 17, 2018
The probability of drawing two consecutive Jacks without replacement is
1 out of 221 or
Explanation:
The probability of drawing the initial Jack is 4 out of 52 as there are 4 Jacks in deck of 52 cards.
Since you are not replacing the Jack the Deck now has 51 cards and 3 Jacks making that 3 out of 51.
1st Jack =
2nd Jack =
To find the probability of consecutive events we would multiply the individual probabilities.
Which reduces to
