Five cards are dealt from a shuffled deck. What is the probability that the dealt hand contains exactly two aces, given that we know it contains at least one
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- Number of ways to choose 2 aces out of 4: 4 choose 2 = 6 - Number of ways to choose 3 non-ace cards out of 48: 48 choose 3 = 17,296 - Total number of ways to choose 5 cards out of 52: 52 choose 5 = 2,598,960 - Probability of getting exactly two aces: (6 * Show more…
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