You have an ordinary deck of cards. You draw one card, do not replace it, and then draw a second card. Each series of draws begins with a full deck. Assuming you are as likely to draw one card as another, find the following probability: P(drawing a red card and drawing a black card on two consecutive draws, in either order)

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P((red on 1 • black on 2) ? (black on 1 • red on 2)) = (4/52 ? 3/51) + (4/52 ? 3/51) = 16/2652 + 16/2652 = 32/2652 = 8/663

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