Timeline for Probability of face cards drawn from a deck.
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| Jun 13, 2017 at 15:50 | vote | accept | Amelius | ||
| Jun 13, 2017 at 15:50 | comment | added | lulu | I am not sure what you mean by "stepping outside" here. Like I said, your method is good: list the eight card draws with exactly three faces and then subtract those in which the eight card isn't a face. Excellent method. Works like a charm. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 15:48 | comment | added | Amelius | So it's basically like I'm multiplying the chance of having 3 in the first 7 by the probability of not having another face card on the 8th draw? So we're stepping outside normal Bernoulli trials and adding an extra term? | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 15:44 | history | answered | lulu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |