You are dealt seven cards from a standard and shuffled deck of playing cards. (Note that a standard deck has 52 cards and four of those are Jacks.) What is the probability that you'll have exactly two Jacks in your hand?

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Jaslyn Benitez

10 March, 16:34

You are dealt seven cards from a standard and shuffled deck of playing cards. (Note that a standard deck has 52 cards and four of those are Jacks.) What is the probability that you'll have exactly two Jacks in your hand?

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Evelin Booker · Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

probability of having one jack in hand=4/52

now one jack is gone

to have another jack in the handP=3/51

combined probability for these two events to takep place. = 4/52 * 3/51

Macey Li · Answer 2

0.0768

Step-by-step explanation:

4 Jacks and 48 other cards

Exactly 2 jacks, and 5 others

(4C2 * 48C5) / (52C7)

594/7735

0.07679379444