Card Probability
Source:
December 8, 2005
probabilitynumber theoryrelatively prime
Problem Statement
A deck of forty cards consists of four 1's, four 2's,..., and four 10's. A matching pair (two cards with the same number) is removed from the deck. Given that these cards are not returned to the deck, let be the probability that two randomly selected cards also form a pair, where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find