Imagine a deck of 500 cards numbered from 1 to 500. If all the cards are shuffled randomly and you are asked to pick three cards, one at a time, what's the probability of each subsequent card being larger than the previous drawn card

P = 1 / 6

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:-

- A deck has 500 cards

- Numbered from 1-500

Find:-

you are asked to pick three cards, one at a time, what's the probability of each subsequent card being larger than the previous drawn card

Solution:-

- Suppose we draw three cards. We don't care what they actually are, irrespective of number.

- Let the three numbers be a, b, c: Such that:

                                       a < b < c.

- The total possible combinations with 3 numbered cards will be:

                                       a b c

                                       b a c

                                       a c b

                                       b a c

                                       b c a

                                       c a b

- We have 6 possibilities for 3 numbered cards. So the probability of  of each subsequent card being larger than the previous drawn card would be:

                                     P = 1 / possible combinations

                                    P = 1 / 6

in mathematics, a function is a relationship between two variables such that the value of one of the variables, called the dependent variable, is determined by the value of the other variable, called the independent variable. there is a specific term we use to describe the set of independent variables of a function.

answer: 48

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