find odds of drawing a spade out of 50 remaing cards

Question

if i had 2 spades what are the odds of drawing a spade from the remaining 50 cards

Answer 1

Hello, thank you for taking the time to post your question!

In a standard deck you would start with 13 spades and 52 total cards. So if the first 2 selected are spades that means that you would now have

(13 – 2) = 11 spades

(52 – 2) = 50 total cards, making the probability

11/50, or 0.22

I hope that helps you get moving in a better direction on this type of question! Feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions beyond that :)

Answer 2

there are 13 spades in the deck

13-2=11 spades left out of 50 cards

probability is 11/50