Instructor: Conrad Perez

Student: Jennifer Tofan

Course: Math 21 Online (52031) - Spring Assignment: 8.3
Date: 05/04/23
2023

Two cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that there are no fives​?

Let S be a sample space of equally likely​outcomes, and let event E be a subset of S. Then the probability that event E occurs is given by the
following formula.

n(E)
P(E) =
n(S)

Since the cards are drawn from the deck without replacement the order in which the cards are drawn does not​matter, use combinations to
determine the size of the spaces.

First, find​n(S), the size of the sample space. To calculate the number of ways to draw 2 cards from a deck of​52, calculate C(52,2).

n(S) = C(52,2) = 1326

Now find​n(E), the number of ways to obtain no fives. There are 4 fives in a deck of cards.

Since 4 cards are fives​, there are 48 cards that are not fives. ​Therefore, the probability of getting 2 cards that are not fives is C(48,2).

n(E) = C(48,2) = 1128

n(E) C(48,2)
Thus, the probability of selecting 2 cards that are not fives is ​P(E) = = .
n(S) C(52,2)

Simplify.

C(48,2) 1128 188

= =
C(52,2) 1326 221

188
The probability is ​P(E) = .
221