Please can you help?
A poker hand (5 cards) is dealt. i Find the chance that the cards are all diamond.
My Solution approach:
i)P(all diamond)= (13/52)*(12/51)*(11/50)*(10/49)*(9/48)= yet its wrong????

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Please can you help?
A poker hand (5 cards) is dealt. i Find the chance that the cards are all diamond. 
My Solution approach: 
i)P(all diamond)= (13/52)*(12/51)*(11/50)*(10/49)*(9/48)= yet its wrong????

agent0smith · Answer

Use combinations instead:

From 13 diamonds, choose 5. Divide this by from 52 cards choose 5.

(13C5)/(52C5)

anonymous · Answer

That is indeed the correct answer. Are there more then 1 player(s) though?

anonymous · Answer

agent0smith and your solutions are in fact equivalent

anonymous · Answer

can You please in percentages or numbers can you quantify 13C5/52C5=

agent0smith · Answer

$$\Large nCr =\frac{ n! }{ (n-r)! r! }$$

13C5 = 1287
52C5 = 2598960

anonymous · Answer

Thanks!

anonymous · Answer

You guys had the exact same answer!!! just written differently. Its important for you to know that.

agent0smith · Answer

Yeah, I'm guessing you entered it wrongly on your calculator, if it was wrong.