You draw cards from a standard -card deck without replacing them. What is the probability that both cards are of the same suit? For both cards in same suit, you must first select a suit - 4C1 = 4 From that selected suit you have to select 2 cards. Then definitly both cards are same suit. So, it will be like this 4C1 * 13C2 And we can get total number of combinations - 52C2 Answer will be given by division of these two values. (4C1 * 13C2) 4 * 78 4 12 ------------ = ------- = ---- = ---- 52C2 1326 17 51 --------------------------------------- Pick 2 cards from 52 cards: 52C2 = 1326 Pick 2 cards from 13 cards of the same suit: 13C2 = 78 Let P(H) be the possibility of picking 2 heart cards: P(H) = 78/1326 = 1/17 Let P(X) be the possibility of picking 2 cards of the same suits. Since we have 4 suits (heart, spade, diamond, club) P(X) = P(H) * 4 = 1/17 = 4/17 --------------------------------------- The first card has a chance of 1 of being in some suit, and the second should be 12/51 to be of the same suit, so the total is 12/51...