Poker Is a Common Game in Which Players Are Dealt $\approx$

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Multiple Choice

Poker is a common game in which players are dealt five cards from a deck of cards. It can be shown that there are 2,598,960 different possible poker hands. The winning hands (from highest to lowest) are shown in the table below. Royal Flush 4 hands Other straight flush 36 hands Four of a kind 624 hands Full house 3,744 hands Flush 5,108 hands Straight 10,200 hands Three of a kind 54,912 hands Two pair 123,552 hands One pair 1,098,240 hands Other hands 1,302,540 hands Find the requested probabilities. Use a calculator. Select the pair of answers closest to the answers on your calculator. P (royal flush) $\approx$
__________ P (straight flush) $\approx$
__________

• A) P (royal flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000015; P (straight flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000139
• B) P (royal flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000002; P (straight flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000014
• C) P (royal flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000015; P (straight flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000014
• D) P (royal flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000002; P (straight flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000139
• E) P (royal flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000139; P (straight flush) \(\approx\) 0.0000015

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