69. Five cards are drawn successively with replacement from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that:
(i) All the five cards are spade?
(ii) Only 3 cards are spades?
(iii) None is spade?
69. Five cards are drawn successively with replacement from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that:
(i) All the five cards are spade?
(ii) Only 3 cards are spades?
(iii) None is spade?
69. Let X represent the number of spade cards among the five cards drawn. Since the drawing of card is with replacement, the trials are Bernoulli trials.
In a well shuffled deck of 52 cards, there are 13 spade cards.
X has a binomial distribution with n=5 and

P (all five cards are spades)
(ii) P (only
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+ P (3B, 5W) × P (2W and 2B)
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∴ Probability of getting 2 heads and 1 tail
ax2 + bx + c = 0
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