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  • May 9, 2009, 11:27 AM
    alance07
    Probability and cards
    You are given a standard deck of playing cards (52). Assume five cards are randomly chosen from the deck.

    (a) How many hands contain four aces?

    (b) How many hands contain two aces and two kings?

    (c) How many hands contain exactly two 7's?



    Thanks in advance!
  • May 9, 2009, 11:40 AM
    N0help4u

    You are suppose to do one post per question topic
    These need combined
    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/mathem...ds-351703.html
  • May 9, 2009, 01:25 PM
    galactus
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by alance07 View Post
    You are given a standard deck of playing cards (52). Assume five cards are randomly chosen from the deck.

    Quote:

    (a) How many hands contain four aces?
    I will write these as a probability. Can you count the number then?

    We choose 4 Aces from the 4 in the deck. We need 1 of the remaining 48 cards.

    In all, we draw 5 from 52.



    is the probability of being dealt 4 Aces.


    Quote:

    (b) How many hands contain two aces and two kings?
    We choose 2 Aces from the 4 and 2 Kings form the 4. 1 card from the remaining 44.





    Quote:

    (c) How many hands contain exactly two 7's?
    We choose 2 7's from the 4 and 3 from the remaining 48



    See how that works now?

    I know I used probability instead of counting the number. Can you do that now?

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