What Is the Probability of Drawing a Four-of-a-Kind in a Five-Card Poker Hand?

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The probability of drawing a four-of-a-kind in a five-card poker hand involves understanding the combinations of card values and suits. The initial calculation presented incorrectly interpreted the arrangement of cards, focusing on suits rather than values. The correct approach involves recognizing that there are multiple arrangements for the four matching cards and one different card, leading to a multiplication factor of 5. The book's solution correctly accounts for this by multiplying the combinations of values by the arrangements. Ultimately, the accurate probability of drawing a four-of-a-kind is approximately 2.4e-4.
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52 cards, 13 values (A to K) and 4 suits. what's the probability of getting 5 cards with a four-of-a-kind (same value)?
My solution: first card 52/52, second 3/51, third 2/50. fourth 1/49, fifth 48/48
so (52/52)*(3/51)*(2/50)*(1/49)*(48/48)~4.8e-5
The solution provided by the book 13x48/(C 52 5)~2.4e-4
My solution is 1/5 of the answer. Did I miss something? I think both ways of solving it make sense

Thanks
 
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Your solution is the probability that the first four cards dealt are from the same suit and the fifth card from a different suit. It is easy to show that the probability of "second, third, fourth, fifth cards from the same suit but first card from a different suite", "first, third, fourth, fifth cards from the same suit, second card from a different suit", etc. are the same. That "different suit" card can be anyone of the five cards dealt so the value you got is multiplied by 5.

More formally, there are \begin{pmatrix}5 \\ 1\end{pmatrix}= 5 ways of arranging five things, four of which are the same.
 
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