Three cards are drawn from a standard deck of 52

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2022-06-23

Three cards are drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the possibility that a jack, a queen, and a king are selected, drawn in succession without?

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Jovan Wong

Jovan Wong

Beginner2022-06-24Added 23 answers

Step 1
Let, J = the Event that a Jack has been selected from a std. deck.
Q and K denote similar Events for Queen and King resp.
A std. deck have a total of 52 cards in which, 4 are Jacks.
Hence, Prob. of drawing a Jack in the first run, is given by, P ( J ) = 4 52 ... ... . . ( 1 ) . .
Now, for the event Q, the Jack card drawn while occurence of J is not to be replaced back in the deck, the deck is left with 52 - 1 = 51 cards with 4 Queens in it.
Step 2
Therefore, the Prob. of getting a Quuen in the second draw, having known that the event J has occurred, is given by, P ( Q J ) = 4 51 ... ... ... . . ( 2 ) . .
On a similar arguement, we find, P ( K Q J ) = 4 50 ... ... ... ( 3 ) . .
Now, the Reqd. Prob. = P ( J Q K )
= P ( J ) P ( Q J ) P ( K Q J ) = ( 4 52 ) ( 4 51 ) ( 4 50 ) = 8 15675 .

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