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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2017 Paper 1 16 a Solution by
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A uniformly shuffled deck makes all unordered five-card hands equally likely, giving possible hands. Choose the rank appearing four times in ways; all four suits of that rank are then fixed. The remaining card can be any of the other cards. No hand is counted twice, because five cards cannot contain two different complete four-card ranks. This use of combinatorics gives the probabilityHere is a binomial coefficient; the probability also simplifies to .
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