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Suppose that 3 cards from a standard deck of 52 playing cards are successively drawn at random without replacement (a) Find the probability that all 3 are queens (b) Find the probability that all 3 are spades (a) The probability that all 3 are queens is (Type an integer a simplified fraction) or (b) The probability that all 3 are spades is (Type integer simplified fraction) an or a

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|\Omega|=52\cdot51\cdot50=132600

a)


|A|=4\cdot3\cdot2=24\\P(A)=(24)/(132600)=(1)/(5525)

b)


|A|=13\cdot12\cdot11=1716\\P(A)=(1716)/(132600)=(11)/(850)

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