What is the Probability Each Player Receives One Black Card in a Card Game?

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Homework Statement


A well shuffled deck has 4 black cards and 12 red cards (16 total). The cards are
dealt out to 4 players (each gets 4 cards). What is the probability that each player will have 1 black card?

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Asking how to set this up and solve this.

The Attempt at a Solution



There's a solution in the Bertsekas/Tsitsiklis "Intro to Probability" book for a similar problem, but I don't understand the explanation.
 
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