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- Subject: Re: two pairs
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:26:11 GMT
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- In <1992Sep15.024945.17690@wuecl.wustl.edu> ppc1@cec1.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
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- >hi,
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- >can anyone point out what is wrong with my calculation of getting a hand
- >of two pairs from a shuffled deck of cards?
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- > the probability i have is:
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- > (13 * 4C2) (12 * 4C2) (4 * 11)
- > ------------------------------ = 0.095078
- > 52C5
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- >which is exactly two times the correct value (0.047539).
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- >pete
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- You can't distinguish between the pairs, so you have to divide by 2.
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