(Drawing aces from a pack of cards)

MATHEMATICS · Multi-part · CBSE · Mathematics · Probability · Probability

Problem

(Drawing aces from a pack of cards) (i) Three cards are drawn successively without replacement from a well-shuffled standard pack of 52 cards. Determine the total number of possible ordered samples of three cards. (ii) Calculate the probability that none of the three cards drawn is an ace. (iii) Hence obtain the probability that at least one ace appears among the three cards drawn.

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