Chance of a full house in five cards
Question
Five cards are dealt from a well-shuffled standard -card deck. What is the probability that they form a full house, i.e. three cards of one rank plus two cards of another rank?
Short answer
(about ). Choose the rank and suits of the triple, , then the rank and suits of the pair, , giving hands out of .
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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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