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Old 12-01-2003, 02:16 PM
Henke Henke is offline
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Default Re: odds calculation question

You cannot add probabilities for events which are not mutually exclusive. Two events are mutually exclusive if the probability of both events happening is zero.

The easiest way to calculate this probability is to calculate the probability of the event NOT happening, and substract this from the full sample space, ie:
P(flush)=1-38/47*37/46
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