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3.28. Suppose that an ordinary deck of 52 cards is shuffled and the cards are then turned over one at a time until the first ace appears. Given that the first ace is the 20th card to appear, what is the conditional probability that the card following it is the

(a) ace of spades?

(b) two of clubs?

Short Answer

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Apply the definition of conditional probability to define events that are equally likely..

Probability that 21. is ace of spades is 2.34%

Probability that 21. is two of clubs is 1.89%

Step by step solution

01

Step1:Find ace of spades(part a)

All five he cards are drawn at random from a deck of 52 cards.

Considered events:

A - The 20thcard is the first ace.

B - the 2lstcard is the ace of spades

C - the 21stcard is the two of clubs

Calculate:

a)P(BA)b)P(CA)

All 52!permutations of the cards are equally likely.

In event A, the number of different permutations -|A| is:

The first card can be any of the 48non ace cards, the second card can be any of the 47non ace cards (and not the first card). the first 19can be drawn in 484730=48!29!different ways.

The remaining 32cards can be permuted in 32!ways.

In event BA, the number of different permutations |AB|is:

The first 19cards can be any non ace cards, and order matters, so same as before 484730=48!29!different choices for the first 19cards.

The twentieth card could be one of the three aces.

The 21.st card is the ace of spades, and the remaining 31cards can be permuted in 31!ways.

In event CA, the number of different permutations - |AC|is:

The first 19 cards can be any non ace cards that are not two of clubs either, so there are 47options for the first card, 46for the second and so on.. 47!28!different choices for the first19cards.

One of the four aces could be the twentieth card.

The 21.st card is the two of clubs, and the remaining 31cards can be permuted in 31!ways.

02

Find two of clubs(part b)

We have conditional probability and probability on an equally likely set of events by definition.

P(BA)=|AB||A|=48!29!3131!48!29!432!32=3432=31282.34%

P(CA)=|AB||A|=47y28!4131!48%29!4829432!32=1482932=2915361.89%

The possibility is greater for the ace because the likelihood that it will be used before the ace is higher21. card is1/4, and the probability that two of clubs is used before is that it is one of the 19from 48non ace cards.

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