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Each of four players dealt exactly one ace

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A well-shuffled 5252-card deck is dealt out completely to four players, 1313 cards each. What is the probability that every player ends up holding exactly one ace?

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2197/20825≈0.10552197/20825\approx0.1055. Place the aces one at a time into the 5252 slots: the second ace must avoid the first ace's hand (39/5139/51), the third must avoid two hands (26/5026/50), and the fourth three hands (13/4913/49). The product is 39⋅26⋅1351⋅50⋅49\tfrac{39\cdot26\cdot13}{51\cdot50\cdot49}.

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