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find the number of possible 5 card hands that conatin at most 1 queen

 Feb 13, 2015

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We have the number of possible hands that include no queens or one queen.

For the number that include no queens, we want to select 5 cards from any of 12 ranks, not including the queens. So we have C(48,5) =1,712,304

For the number that include one queen, and no more, we want to choose 1 of the 4 queens and then any 4 cards from the other 48. So we have C(4,1)*C(48,4) = 778,320

And adding these together, we get,  2,490,624

 

 Feb 13, 2015
 #1
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Best Answer

We have the number of possible hands that include no queens or one queen.

For the number that include no queens, we want to select 5 cards from any of 12 ranks, not including the queens. So we have C(48,5) =1,712,304

For the number that include one queen, and no more, we want to choose 1 of the 4 queens and then any 4 cards from the other 48. So we have C(4,1)*C(48,4) = 778,320

And adding these together, we get,  2,490,624

 

CPhill Feb 13, 2015
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Looks good to me Chris :)

 Feb 14, 2015

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