Five cards are drawn successively with replacement from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that
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 spades?
(ii) only 3 cards are spades?
(iii) none is a spade?
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.
$\Rightarrow p=\frac{13}{52}=\frac{1}{4}$
$\therefore q=1-\frac{1}{4}=\frac{3}{4}$
$X$ has a binomial distribution with $n=5$ and $p=\frac{1}{4}$
$\mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X}=x)={ }^{n} \mathrm{C}_{x} q^{n-x} p^{2}$, where $x=0,1, \ldots n$
$={ }^{5} \mathrm{C}_{x}\left(\frac{3}{4}\right)^{5-x}\left(\frac{1}{4}\right)^{x}$
(i) P (all five cards are spades) = P(X = 5)
$={ }^{5} C_{5}\left(\frac{3}{4}\right)^{0} \cdot\left(\frac{1}{4}\right)^{5}$
$=1 \cdot \frac{1}{1024}$
$=\frac{1}{1024}$
(ii) P (only 3 cards are spades) = P(X = 3)
$={ }^{5} \mathrm{C}_{3} \cdot\left(\frac{3}{4}\right)^{2} \cdot\left(\frac{1}{4}\right)^{3}$
$=10 \cdot \frac{9}{16} \cdot \frac{1}{64}$
$=\frac{45}{512}$
(iii) P (none is a spade) = P(X = 0)
$={ }^{5} C_{0} \cdot\left(\frac{3}{4}\right)^{5} \cdot\left(\frac{1}{4}\right)^{9}$
$=1 \cdot \frac{243}{1024}$
$=\frac{243}{1024}$