Delta-K,  Problem Solving,  Volume 31, Issue 3

Counting Card Combinations

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 31 Issue 3, September 1993

18 – 19

Counting Card Combinations

Bonnie H. Litwiller and David R. Duncan

A poker player Jeanne notices that most of her five card hands contain at least one heart. What is the probability that this result occurs; that is, that a given poker hand contains at least one heart?