Probability of drawing a card from suit giving n cards already drawn and some of them unknown

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Say you have 15 cards already drawn, of which you know five and four of these five are of the same suit, what is the probability of drawing a card of the same suit as of the four from the remaining 37 cards?

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Any card you pick could be one of $9$ of the same suit out of $47$ unknown cards. The other $10$ cards are a red herring inserted to confuse the student.

$$P = \frac{9}{47}$$

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Assume you know 9 cards so 43 are left. There are still 9 of the suite. So 9/43.

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We don't know the remaining 10 cards so we can assume we have 47 cards to drawn from and we have nine cards of that suit so

P(A) =9/47