September 11, 2003
Drawing a 5 card hand from a 52 card deck
Bonus: In the lower-right corner you will find parts c and d from problem 4.48.
Footnote: The number of aces is a random variable. Here is another:
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Permutations and Combinations
We studied the problem of drawing 3 cards from a 5 card deck.
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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