Chance a five-card hand is exactly two pair
Question
Five cards are dealt from a well-shuffled standard 52-card deck. Find the probability that the hand is two pair: two cards of one rank, two cards of a second rank, and a fifth card of a third rank.
Short answer
. Pick the two paired ranks in ways and two suits for each in ways, then the kicker from the cards of other ranks. Dividing by gives .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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