That is correct. The only way that the 1/1081 would apply to the first line
is if you were looking for two exact cards - such as trying to fill in 3 to a
royal.
- Brian in MI
In a message dated 3/10/2006 10:40:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cognoscienti@gmail.com writes:
<<There are 1081 ways to draw 2 cards. The prob of drawing the same 2 cards
3 times is therefore less than 1 in a million.
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Isn't the probability of this equal to
(1/1081)^3 = 1/1,263,214,441, making it less than 1 in a billion?>>A common error. What you've forgotten is that the first draw may be any two
cards, so the 1080-1 shots only occur on the other two lines.Cogno
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