Problema Solution

From a standard 52-card deck, how many 7-card hands will have 3 spades and 4 hearts?

Answer provided by our tutors

The standard 52 card deck has 13 spades and 13 heart in total.

Since the order of the cars is not important we are dealing with combination:

C(13, 3)*C(13, 4) = 13!/(3!(13 - 3)!) * 13!/(4!(13 - 4)!) = (11*12*13/6)*(10*11*12*13/24) = 204490

There 204490 7-card hands that have 3 spades and 4 hearts.