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A standard 52-card deck is shuffled and 2 cards are picked from the top of the deck.
-The probability that the first card is a Heart and the second card is a Spade is
A) 5.9%
B) 6.3%
C) 6.4%
D) 25.0%

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Use the following information for questions:
 A standard 52-card deck is shuffled and 2 cards are picked from the top of the deck.
-The probability that the first card is a Heart and the second card is a Spade is
A) 5.9%
B) 6.3%
C) 6.4%
D) 25.0%

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The probability of drawing a Heart first is 13/52 (since there are 13 Hearts in a deck of 52 cards). After drawing a Heart, there are 51 cards left, with 13 of them being Spades. So, the probability of then drawing a Spade is 13/51. Multiplying these probabilities gives (13/52) * (13/51) = 169/2652 ≈ 6.4%.

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