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Question 194348: three cards are drawn in succession and without replacement from a standard deck of 52. how many sets os thre cards are possible?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055) About Me  (Show Source):
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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?

Since the order in which they were drawn makes no difference
in the problem, we use "combinations"

52C3 which is usually read "52 choose 3".  Use the formula



Edwin