"Tallison" <Tallison.Rausch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> The questionut: How many five-card combinations of a standard playing
> card deck have cards from exactly two suits?
>
> The answer: 379,236.
>
> The sad thing is that after working on this problem for the last hour,
> I've gotten answers ranging from 32,712 to 65,780 to 268,382.4 (no
> kidding!) to 328,900 - everything, that is, but the actual answer
> according to the textbook.
>
> So for the love of God, can someone help me identify the correct
> formula?????
The textbook answer looks low to me. Can you specify
precisely what a "five-card combination" is and what would
make one unique?
What approaches have you tried?
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