document.write( "Question 1117621: A hand of 5 cards is dealt from a standard deck\r
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document.write( "How many hands with 2 king and 3 clubs are possible? \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #733266 by josmiceli(19441) You can put this solution on YOUR website! Order is not important, so this is a problem \n" ); document.write( "using combinations, not permutations \n" ); document.write( "Number of hands = C( 3,2 ) * C( 12,3 ) \n" ); document.write( "C( 3,2 ) = \n" ); document.write( "C( 3,2 ) = \n" ); document.write( "C( 3,2 ) = \n" ); document.write( "and \n" ); document.write( "C( 12,3 ) = \n" ); document.write( "C( 12,3 ) = \n" ); document.write( "C( 12,3 ) = \n" ); document.write( "C( 12,3 ) = \n" ); document.write( "C( 12,3 ) = \n" ); document.write( "------------------------ \n" ); document.write( "C( 4,2 )*C( 13,3 ) = \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "There are 660 possible hands \n" ); document.write( "Note that one of the kings counted is a club, so that \n" ); document.write( "won't work, and one of the clubs being counted is a king \n" ); document.write( "and that won't work either, so I need to account for them \n" ); document.write( "Feel free to get another opinion on this \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |