The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 12 - Introducing Probability - Check Your Skills - Page 298: 12.22

Answer

(a) if you deal thousands of poker hands, the fraction of them that contain two pairs will be very close to 1/21.

Work Step by Step

This means that if we deal many poker hands, then there will be approximately two pairs in one out of every 21 deals
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