In the game of poker, a full house is a special kind of 5-card hand. It consists of 3 cards of the same rank and another 2 cards of the same rank.
If a player is dealt 5 cards from a shuffled 52-card poker deck, what is the probability of getting a full house? Round the answer to six decimal places.
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Can you more explain the product of numerator
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The numerator is all about counting the number of combinations of cards that are full house hands . The binomial coefficient is used to count.
( 1 1 3 ) means that 1 of the ranks is chosen from among the 1 3 . There are ( 1 1 3 ) = 1 3 ways to choose a rank in this way. You don't really need the binomial coefficient to know that there are 13 ways to choose a rank, but it's helpful in this context to understand how the binomial coefficient works.
( 3 4 ) means that 3 of the suits are chosen from among the 4 . There are ( 3 4 ) ways to choose suits in this way. These ways are:
( ♡ , ♢ , ♣ ) ( ♡ , ♣ , ♠ ) ( ♡ , ♢ , ♠ ) ( ♢ , ♣ , ♠ )
These selections are independent, so there are ( 1 1 3 ) ( 3 4 ) = 5 2 combinations of 3 cards of the same suit.
The selection of the 2-of-a-kind is similar, but now there are only 12 ranks left to choose from.
I was trying to do 3/51 * 2/50 * 48/49 * 3/48, but that means drawing the cards in the order AAABB, when in fact the order doesn't matter (i.e. BBAAA works too). This actually makes my solution smaller by exactly a factor of 10, which was driving me nuts.
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I was stuck in the exact same position. I totally forgot that order didn't matter at all. Damn it!
I did the same thing. Its 10^-4
P ( Full House ) = 5 2 C 5 1 3 P 2 . 4 C 3 . 4 C 2 = 0 . 0 0 1 4 4 1
Selecting any 2 ranks
Choosing 3 out of 4 cards
Choosing 2 out of 4 cards
Choosing 5 out of 52 cards
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The probability is:
( 5 5 2 ) ( 1 1 3 ) ( 3 4 ) ( 1 1 2 ) ( 2 4 ) = 2 5 9 8 9 6 0 3 7 4 4 ≈ 0 . 0 0 1 4 4 1
The denominator is a count of the number of ways to select 5 cards from a set of 5 2 : ( 5 5 2 )
The numerator can be interpreted as follows:
First, choose 1 rank from among the 1 3 : ( 1 1 3 )
Then, choose 3 cards from among the 4 cards of that rank: ( 3 4 )
Next, choose another 1 rank from the remaining 1 2 ranks: ( 1 1 2 )
Finally, choose 2 cards from among the 4 cards of that rank ( 2 4 )
Then, use the rule of product to find the total number of distinct hands which are full houses.