Question 512927: If you are dealt 3 cards from a shuffled deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that all 3 cards are picture cards?
Answer by htmentor(1343)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If you are dealt 3 cards from a shuffled deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that all 3 cards are picture cards?
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There are 12 picture cards in a standard deck of 52.
With each successive card, there will be one less picture card and one less card in the deck of 52.
The total probability is the product of the individual probabilities:
P(3 face cards) = (12/52)*(11/51)*(10/50) = (3/13)*(11/51)*(1/5) = 33/3315, which is less than 1% probability
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