How many combinations are there to pull at least 1 ace with 10 cards.

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We have deck of cards (52 cards). 10 random cards will be picked. How many chances are there, that atleast 1 of the random cards is "ace".

At first I tried to calculate how many different possibilities are there to pull 10 random cards without any extra conditions. According to formula nCk= n! / k!(n-k)!: I got 52! / 10! * 42!

Next I tried to calculate how many possibilities are to pull 10 cards from deck, that does not contain any "aces" I got 48! / 10! * 38!

Then I could subtract second answer from first and I would be left over with answer. Since the numbers are too huge to try on calculator, I wondered if my solutions works.

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It's okay to give the answer as:

${52\choose 10} - {48\choose 10}$

That is an acceptable answer but if you want to caluculate it it is.

$\frac {52!}{42!10!} - \frac {48!}{38!10!} =$

$\frac {48!}{38!10!}(\frac {52*51*50*49}{42*41*40*39} - 1)=$

$\frac {39*....*48}{10!}(\frac {52*51*50*49}{42*41*40*39}-\frac {42*41*40*39}{42*41*40*39})=$

$\frac {43*44*....*48}{10!}(52*51*50*49 - 42*41*40*39)=$

.... factor terms out.

$\frac {(43*22*1*46*47*1)*6*8*9*10}{10!}(13*17*5*7 - 1*41*2*39)2*3*4*5*7=$

$(43*22*46*47)(13*17*5*7 - 41*2*39)$

And that can be plugged into a calculator.

But.... 1) NOBODY CARES!!!! The answer ${52\choose 10} - {48\choose 10}$ is good enough and

2) If you have a computer it comes with a calculator and the numbers aren't too high

$52! = 8.0658175170943878571660636856404e+67$

$\frac {52!}{42!} = 57407703889536000$

$\frac {52!}{42!10!} = 15820024220$

$48! = 1.2413915592536072670862289047373e+61$

$\frac {48!}{38!10!} = 6540715896$

and $\frac {52!}{42!10!} - \frac {48}{38!10!} = 9279308324$

.... which.... nobody cares. Unless you are doing probability ... in which case $\frac {{52\choose 10} - {48 \choose 10}}{52\choose 10}$ is easy to calculate with cancelation as $1 -\frac {48!42!}{52!38!}= 1- \frac {39*40*41*42}{49*50*51*52} = 1- \frac{41*6}{7*5*17}$