A deck of 52 cards is shuffled and cut into two halves of 26 cards each. What is the probability that the number of red cards (hearts and diamonds) in the first half is equal to the number black cards (clubs and spades) in the second half?

Two jokers are added to the deck. The deck of 54 cards is shuffled and cut into two halves of 27 cards each. Now what is the probability that the number of red cards in the first half is equal to the number black cards in the second half?

(In reply to re: Solution by Daniel)

First joker can be anywhere.  Second is in one of the 53 possible places of which 27 are in the other half.

Posted by Jer on 2017-06-05 09:51:37