Exercise 3.27

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X is not Binomial becuase the outcome of a card is not independent of the previous cards’ outcomes. For instance, if the first n 1 cards match, then the probability of the last card matching is 1.

The Hypergeometric story requires sampling from two finite sets, but the matching cards isn’t a set of predetermined size, so the story doesn’t fit.

P(X = k) = (n k) !(n k) n!

where !(n k) is a subfactorial.

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