Question

A poker hand consisting of 7 cards is dealt from a standard deck of 52 cards. Find the probability that the hand contains exactly 3 face cards. Leave your answer as a reduced fraction.

Answer 1

The probability is 2,010,580/13,378,456

Explanation:

Here is a combination problem.

We want to 7 cards from a total of 52.

The number of ways to do this is 52C7 ways.

Also, we know there are 12 face cards in a standard deck of cards.

So we are selecting 3 face cards from this total of 12.

So also the number of cards which are not face cards are 52-12 = 40 cards

Out of all these 40, we shall be selecting exactly 4. The number of ways to do this 40C4

Thus, the required probability will be;

(40C4 * 12C3)/52C7 = (91,390 * 220)/133,784,560

= 20,105,800/133,784,560 = 2,010,580/13,378,456