Four of a kind given at least three of a kind
Question
A five-card hand is dealt from a standard -card deck. You are informed that at least three of the cards share a rank. What is the conditional probability that the hand holds all four cards of some rank?
Short answer
. Four-of-a-kind hands: . Hands with exactly three of a rank: . The answer is .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Worked Examples — Probability Trees, Monty Hall, and Bayesian Updating
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