From a pack of 52 cards, the cards are drawn one by one till an ace ap...
There are 4 aces in a pack. So, the probability of drawing an ace = 4/52
= 1/13
and the probability of drawing a card other than ace = 12/13.
Hence, the probability that ace doesn't appear in first 26 draws = (12/13)26
View all questions of this test
From a pack of 52 cards, the cards are drawn one by one till an ace ap...
Solution:
Let the probability that an ace appears in the first draw be P(A).
Then, the probability that an ace does not appear in the first draw is P(A') = 1 - P(A).
Now, for the second draw, there are 51 cards left, out of which there are 3 aces left.
So, the probability that an ace appears in the second draw, given that an ace did not appear in the first draw, is P(B|A') = 3/51.
Similarly, for the third draw, there are 50 cards left, out of which there are 2 aces left.
So, the probability that an ace appears in the third draw, given that aces did not appear in the first two draws, is P(C|A' ∩ B') = 2/50.
And for the fourth draw, there are 49 cards left, out of which there is only 1 ace left.
So, the probability that an ace appears in the fourth draw, given that aces did not appear in the first three draws, is P(D|A' ∩ B' ∩ C') = 1/49.
Now, the probability that an ace does not appear in the first 26 cards is given by:
P(ace does not appear in first 26 cards) = P(A') × P(B'|A') × P(C'|A' ∩ B') × P(D'|A' ∩ B' ∩ C')
= (1 - P(A)) × (48/51) × (48/50) × (48/49)
= (1/13) × (16/17) × (24/25) × (48/49)
= 3072/270725
= 0.01134
Therefore, the correct answer is option D, none of these.