Four players, named A, B, C, and D, are playing a card game. A standard, well-shued deck

Chapter 1, Problem 12

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Four players, named A, B, C, and D, are playing a card game. A standard, well-shued deck of cards is dealt to the players (so each player receives a 13-card hand). (a) How many possibilities are there for the hand that player A will get? (Within a hand, the order in which cards were received doesnt matter.) (b) How many possibilities are there overall for what hands everyone will get, assuming that it matters which player gets which hand, but not the order of cards within a hand? (c) Explain intuitively why the answer to Part (b) is not the fourth power of the answer to Par

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