SOLUTION: five cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of 52 cards. In how many ways is it possible to draw two red cards and three black cards?

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Question 1149286: five cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of 52 cards. In how many ways is it possible to draw two red cards and three black cards?

Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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There are 26C2 ways to pick 2 red cards and 26C3 ways to pick 3 black cards and 52C5 total ways to draw five cards (the denominator)
This has probability 0.3251