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If two cards are drawn without replacement from a deck, find the probability that the second card is a spade, given that the first card was a spade.

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This shows how to find the probability of a given card situation.

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A deck has 52 cards. There are 13 cards each of clubs, hearts, diamonds and spades in each deck.

2 cards are to be drawn

1st card ...

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