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Find the number of ways to get the following card combinations from a 52-card deck.
All diamonds in a five-card hand
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There are 52 cards in a standard card deck; 1/4 of them, i.e. 52/4 = 13 are diamonds.
Therefore, the number of all different quintuples consisting of all diamonds is
= 1287. ANSWER
Solved.
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In this problem, the order of cards does not matter,
so we use COMBINATIONS as an appropriate mathematical object/conception.
On Combinations, see introductory lessons
- Introduction to Combinations
- PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
- Problems on Combinations
in this site.