Bryn Posted May 15, 2004 Posted May 15, 2004 A man draws one card at random from a complete pack of 52 cards, replaces it and then draws another card at random from the pack. Calculate the probibility that eaxactly one of the cards is a Queen. I evaluated P(Q n Q') = 1/13 * 12/13 (they are independant events) =12/169 The answer according to the book is 24/169 . Help!
Dave Posted May 16, 2004 Posted May 16, 2004 Just for the sake of showing the proof, either you get a queen first, or you get some other card then a queen. You just have to put the values in for the different probabilities.
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