Probability of exactly one pair in five-card poker
Question
Five cards are dealt from a well-shuffled standard -card deck. Find the probability that the hand is exactly one pair: two cards share a rank and the remaining three cards have three other ranks, all different from each other.
Short answer
. Choose the paired rank and its suits, , then three other distinct ranks with any suits, . Dividing by gives .
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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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