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Old 11-08-2005, 06:18 PM
TomCollins TomCollins is offline
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Default Re: Help with some probability situations.

For the first one, there are 8 cards you can get the first time, 7 cards the second time, 6, and so forth.

So there are 8! ways this can happen. There are 8^8 ways to deal the cards to this player.

So .24%.

For the second one: 1/8 ^ 8.
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