Statistic: How many cards does the student expect to draw

Question

A student shuffles a deck of cards thoroughly (one time) and then selects

cards from the deck without replacement until the ace of spades appears. How many

cards does the student expect to draw?

Answer 1

There are 13 HEARTS, 13 Spades, 13 clubs, 13 diamonds in the deck, each numbered A,2,3,4,...,9,10,J,Q,K

So of these 52 cards, we are interested in only ONE particular card, that being the ACE of SPADES

The probability is 1/52, so AT MOST 52 selections shall be needed

This can be simulated by generating random integers between 1 and 52 and observing

how many times a PARTICULAR integer of YOUR choice appears