SOLUTION: In the card game Bridge, a yarborough is a 13-card hand containing only cards numbered 2 through 9. Find the number of ways in which to get a yarborough.

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Question 10647: In the card game Bridge, a yarborough is a 13-card hand containing only cards numbered 2 through 9. Find the number of ways in which to get a yarborough.
Answer by khwang(438) About Me  (Show Source):
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The possibility of a hand of bridge is C(52,13).
Among a deck of 52 cards, there are 32 =(8*4) cards between 2 & 9.
So, there are C(32,13) possibilities of a yarborough hand.
Hence, the probability for a yarborough hand is
C(32,13)/C(52,13) [ you can leave the answer like that]
= 0.000547033 [by using the function combin(n, r) in MS Excel ]
Kenny