Odds of quads, a full house and two pair
Question
Five cards are dealt from a shuffled standard deck. Find the probabilities of being dealt (a) four of a kind, (b) a full house (three of one rank and two of another), and (c) exactly two pairs.
Short answer
(a) ; (b) ; (c) . Counts: for quads; for a full house; for two pair, all over .
Adapted from Zhou, A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, sec. 4.2 Combinatorial Analysis, 'Poker hands', p.64; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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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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