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Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a club and one is a diamond?

13/51
1/52
13/102
1/26
Explanation:

$n\left(S\right)$ = Total number of ways of drawing 2 cards from 52 cards = 52C2

Let E = event of getting 1 club and 1 diamond.

We know that there are 13 clubs and 13 diamonds in the total 52 cards.

$Hence, n\left(E\right)$ = Number of ways of drawing one club from 13 and one diamond from 13

= 13C1 × 13C1

$\text{P(E) = }\dfrac{\text{n(E)}}{\text{n(S)}} $= $\dfrac{13_{C_1} \times 13_{C_1}}{52_{C_2}}$

= $\dfrac{13 \times 13}{\left( \dfrac{52 \times 51}{2}\right)}$=$ \dfrac{13 \times 13}{ 26 \times 51}= \dfrac{13}{ 2\times 51}$=$ \dfrac{13}{102}$

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