Question:

Find the number of ways of choosing $4$ face cards from a pack of $52$ playing cards.

Updated On: Jul 6, 2022
  • $495$
  • $493$
  • $490$
  • $492$
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Solution and Explanation

There are $12$ face cards and $4$ are to be selected out of these $12$ cards. This can be done in $^{12}C_{4}$ ways. Therefore, the required number of ways $= \frac{12!}{4! 8!}= 495$.
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Concepts Used:

Permutations and Combinations

Permutation:

Permutation is the method or the act of arranging members of a set into an order or a sequence. 

  • In the process of rearranging the numbers, subsets of sets are created to determine all possible arrangement sequences of a single data point. 
  • A permutation is used in many events of daily life. It is used for a list of data where the data order matters.

Combination:

Combination is the method of forming subsets by selecting data from a larger set in a way that the selection order does not matter.

  • Combination refers to the combination of about n things taken k at a time without any repetition.
  • The combination is used for a group of data where the order of data does not matter.