In a game, each player receives 5 cards from a deck of 52 different cards. How many different groupings of?

Question

cards are possible in this game??
errr factorials and counting. i forget how to do this! help please!

Answer 1

Let n = number of cards
and r = number of cards in a group

number of groups = n!/(r!(n-r)!)

= 52!/(5!(47!)) = 2,598,960
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Answer 2

311,875,200

three hundred and eleven million, eight hundred and seventy five thousend, two hundred combos