September 11, 2003

Permutations and Combinations

We studied the problem of drawing 3 cards from a 5 card deck.

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We concluded that there are 120 possible orderings of 5 cards. There are 10 possible hands that are equally likely, and each can result from 12 orderings.

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Posted by bparke at September 11, 2003 11:57 AM