Find the probability of the following card hands from a 52-card deck. In poker, aces are either high or low. A bridge hand is made up of 13 cards. In bridge, exactly 3 kings and exactly 3 queens There are 4 kings, 4 queens and 44 cards that are neither. So to have a successful hand, we must have 3 kings, 3 queens and 7 cards that are neither kings nor queens. We cam pick the 3 kings "4 choose 3" or 4C3 ways. For each of those 4C3 ways to pick the 3 kings we can pick the 3 queens any of "4 choose 3" ways. So far we have 4C3*4C3 Now for each of those 4C3*4C3 ways to pick the 3 kings and queens, we must choose the other 7 cards from the 44 cards that are neither kings nor queens. So the number of possible successful hands is 4C3*4C3*44C7 The denominator is the number of ways to pick any 13 cards from the 52, so that's 52C13 So the desired probability is 4C3*4C3*44C7 ------------ 52C13 The answer is 9.655370011×10-4 or about .0009655370011 Edwin