Ax1- probability with combinatorics
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considering a sequence of ten coin flips: the number of possible outcomes is
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considering five cards dealt from a deck:
- for the first card, there are 52 possibilities, and for every other card, there is one fewer
- so the number of possible card sequences
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for both these cases, order matters
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the first case is called with replacement, the second is called without replacement
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for the cards, generalising to
choices and samples:
- if the order does not matter:
- this is because there are
ways of permuting it