One of the worst hands in Texas hold 'em poker consists of two cards that are
If the probability of getting such a hand is where and are coprime positive integers, then what is
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The set of possible denomination pairings that satisfy the 1st and 3rd conditions is
{ ( 2 , 7 ) , ( 2 , 8 ) , ( 2 , 9 ) , ( 2 , 1 0 ) , ( 3 , 8 ) , ( 3 , 9 ) , ( 3 , 1 0 ) , ( 4 , 9 ) , ( 4 , 1 0 ) , ( 5 , 1 0 ) } .
For each of these 1 0 pairings we can then choose the first element in 4 ways and the second in 3 ways, (in order to satisfy the 2nd condition). So there are a total of 1 0 × 4 × 3 = 1 2 0 "rotten" hands, leading to a probability of
( 2 5 2 ) 1 2 0 = 2 6 × 5 1 1 2 0 = 2 2 1 2 0 ⟹ a + b = 2 0 + 2 2 1 = 2 4 1 .