You randomly select two cards from a standard 52-card deck. What is the probability that the first card is not a face card (a king, queen, or jack) and the second card is a face card if you replace the first card before selecting the second?

There are 3 face cards per suit, so 12 face card in total. This implies that there are 40 non-face cards in the deck. So, the probablity of picking a face card is 12/52, and the probability of picking a non-face card is 40/52.

Since we replace the first card, the two picks follow the same probability, because we're picking from a whole deck every time.

The probability of two independent events happening is the product of the two probabilities, so we have

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step-by-step explanation:

an equation by definition has to have two or more variables (x and 2 in this case)