Odds against a four of a kind in five cards
Question
Five cards are dealt from a standard -card deck. If is the probability that four of them share a rank, what is ?
Short answer
. There are choices of rank for the four matching cards and choices for the fifth card, giving hands out of . The ratio is .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Matrix Algebra: Operations, Rules, and the Transpose
- Kernel, Image, and the Rank-Nullity Theorem
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