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Determine the total number of five-card hands that can be drawn from a deck of 52 cards.

Correct Answer: 2598960

Explanation:

When a hand of cards is dealt, the order of the cards does not matter. If you are dealt two kings, it does not matter if the two kings came with the first two cards or the last two cards. Thus cards are combinations. There are 52 cards in a deck and we want to know how many different ways we can put them in groups of five at a time when order does not matter. The combination formula is used.


C(52,5) = 2,598,960


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