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jonlai9
12-01-2006, 12:31 AM
I want to find the probability of getting a straight out of 12 cards.

So for the denominator it is 52 nCr 12.

For the numerator... I know that there are 10 possible straights if I don't break up A and 2. Out of the 10 straights, I choose one. Then, I need to choose five corresponding cards out of 4 suits. I get this:

(10 nCr 1)*[(4 nCr 1)^5]

Finally, since I am choosing 12 cards, I need to choose 7 more cards out of the remaining 47 cards.

So the numerator would be:

(10 nCr 1)*[(4 nCr 1)^5]*(47 nCr 7)

And putting that with the numerator to get the probability, I would get:

(10 nCr 1)*[(4 nCr 1)^5]*(47 nCr 7)
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(52 nCr 12)

But if I divide this, I get 3.xx... and probability should be 0 => 1.. what am I doing wrong?