Originally Posted by
blackjak512
Hi. I hope someone can help me with this question, because so far from the people I have asked there has been great conflict over the simplicity/complexity of the answer.
Person A thinks of a card for Person B to then try and randomly draw out from a normal deck of 52 cards. Person B goes ahead and picks a card, and lo and behold it's the right card! What are the odds that have just been beaten? What are the odds that Person B has managed to pick the very card that Person A had asked for?
The confusion seems to be over whether the odds are simply 1/52 or far greater than 1/52.
Thank you very much, in anticipation.
Lee.