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Three cards are drawn in succession and without replacement from a standard deck of 52. how many sets of three cards are possible?
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document.write( "Since the order in which they were drawn makes no difference\r\n" );
document.write( "in the problem, we use \"combinations\"\r\n" );
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document.write( " which is usually read \"52 choose 3\".  Use the formula\r\n" );
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