You draw two cards from a standard deck of 52 cards, but before your second card, you put the first one back and reshuffle the deck. Are the outcomes on the two cards independent?

1 Answer
Mar 25, 2016

Yes they are.

Explanation:

Independent means that the next event is not influenced by the one before. If you hadn't put that first card back, there would be only 51 cards to choose from, and the probabilityof the first card re-appearing would be zero.