What is the probability that a randomly chosen $10$-card hand has exactly three three- of-a-kinds (and no four-of-a-kinds)?

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This is my attempt:

For the first three-of-a-kind:

There are ${13}\choose{1}$ options for the three cards alike and ${4}\choose{3}$ for the suits

For the second three-of-a-kind:

There are ${12}\choose{1}$ options for the three cards alike and ${4}\choose{3}$ for the suits

Similarly for the third: ${11}\choose{3}$ $\times$ ${4}\choose{3}$

Finally, for the remaining card, there are ${43}\choose{1}$ options for the remaining card and ${4}\choose{1}$ for the suit.

So there are $\displaystyle\frac{C(13,1)\times C(4,3)\times C(12,1)\times C(4,3) \times C(11,1)\times C(4,3)\times C(43,1)\times C(4,1)}{C(52,10)}$

Can someone please check and verify? If this is wrong, can someone help me through this problem.

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We'll divide the number of successful hands by the total number of hands.


The total number of hands is $$\binom{52}{10}$$


The number of successful hands is the number of ways to choose $3$ card values that will be repeated $3$ times, then $1$ card value that will occur once, then the excluded suit for each of the sets of $3$, and finally the suit of the singleton card:

$$\binom{13}{3}\binom{10}{1}\binom{4}{1}^3\binom{4}{1}$$


Our final probability is

$$\displaystyle\frac{\displaystyle\binom{13}{3} \cdot 10 \cdot 4^4\,\,}{\displaystyle\binom{52}{10}}$$