Four cards drawn coming out in increasing order
Question
A deck holds cards labelled to . You draw four cards one at a time at random without replacement. What is the probability that the four numbers appear in increasing order?
Short answer
. Whatever four distinct numbers are drawn, all orders of them are equally likely, and exactly one is increasing.
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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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