45-733 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS I


Thinking About Card Problems

The easiest way to handle card problems is to think about the denominations and/or suits as 13 and/or 4 piles of cards of 4 and/or 13 cards in each pile respectively. For example, to work the 2 cards from one denomination and 3 cards from a second denomination problem, we first need to randomly choose two denominations from the 13 denominations. That is

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