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Involve a deck of 5252 cards.

A poker hand consists of five cards.

a.Find the total number of possible five-card poker hands.\textbf{a.}\hspace{10pt}\text{Find the total number of possible five-card poker hands.}

b.Find the number of ways in which four aces can be selected.\textbf{b.}\hspace{10pt}\text{Find the number of ways in which four aces can be selected.}

c.Find the number of ways in which one king can be selected.\textbf{c.}\hspace{10pt}\text{Find the number of ways in which one king can be selected.}

d.Use the Fundamental Counting Principle and your answers from parts (b) and (c) to find the number of ways getting four aces and one king.\textbf{d.}\hspace{10pt}\text{Use the Fundamental Counting Principle and your answers from parts (b) and (c) to find the number of ways getting four aces and one king.}

e.Find the probability of getting a poker hand of four aces and one king.\textbf{e.}\hspace{10pt}\text{Find the probability of getting a poker hand of four aces and one king.}

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The situation describes combination because the order in which the cards are selected is not important. We use the combination formula:

nCr=n!(nr)!r!_nC_r=\dfrac{n!}{(n-r)!r!}

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