SOLUTION: A hand consists of 5 cards from a​ well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. a. Find the total number of possible 5-card poker hands. b. A spade flush is a 5​-card hand consisting of a

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Question 1132413: A hand consists of 5 cards from a​ well-shuffled deck of 52 cards.
a. Find the total number of possible 5-card poker hands.
b. A spade flush is a 5​-card hand consisting of all spade cards. Find the number of possible spade flushes.
c. Find the probability of being dealt a spade flush. (Round to six decimal places as needed.)
Found 2 solutions by Boreal, Alan3354:
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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this is 52C5 or 2598960
spade flush is 13C5 or 1287 number of ways
that probability is 0.000495

Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"well-shuffled" is not relevant.