In a game of euchre, the deck consists of the 9, 10, jack, queen, king and ace of each suit. Players are dealt a five card hand. What is the probability that a player is dealt 2 hearts? What is the probability that a player is dealt 4 kings?
In a game of euchre, the deck consists of the 9, 10, jack, queen, king and ace of each suit. Players are dealt a five card hand. What is the
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Obtain the probability that the player is dealt with 2 hearts.
The probability that the player is dealt with 2 hearts is obtained below as follows:
From the information, given that the deck consists of the 9, 10, jack, queen, king and ace of each suit. That is, there are 4 suits in each deck(spade, clubs, heart, diamond).
That is, there are two red suits (hearts and diamonds) and the two black suits(spade, clubs).
The total number of hearts =6.
Also given that players are dealt a five card hand.
Let S denotes the total number of cards.
That is,
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