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Five cards—the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds, are well shuffled with their face downwards. One card is then picked up at random.(i)   What is the probability that the card is the queen?(ii)  If the queen is drawn and put aside, what is the probability that the second card picked up is (a) an ace? (b) a queen?

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(i) The probability that the card is queen
Total cards = `5`
Number of cards that are queen = `1`
Probability of getting a queen is =`1/5`
(ii) If queen is drawn and put aside, then, the second card drawn to be
(a) An ace
total cards left = `4`
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