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If a 5-card poker hand is dealt from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards, what is the probability of being dealt the given hand?Two pairs
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First, we need to choose the two ranks for the pairs. There are 13 ranks (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A) and we need to choose 2 of them. This can be done in C(13, 2) ways, where C(n, k) is the number of combinations of choosing k items from a set of n Show more…
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