Each of four players dealt exactly one ace
Question
A well-shuffled -card deck is dealt out completely to four players, cards each. What is the probability that every player ends up holding exactly one ace?
Short answer
. Place the aces one at a time into the slots: the second ace must avoid the first ace's hand (), the third must avoid two hands (), and the fourth three hands (). The product is .
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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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