Four cards are randomly chosen without replacement from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards.

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Four cards are randomly chosen without replacement from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. What is the chance of all chosen cards not being aces?

I found a similar problem here but the provided answer doesn't help me.
So, all the card that aren't aces are 48.
But I don't know if all cases are 52 or $^{52}C_4$.
Therefore, I am wondering if the probability is $P(A)=\frac{48}{52}$ or $P(A)=\frac{48}{^{52}C_4}$.
The second probability should be the right one but it looks too low to be realistic. Which is the right answer?

Best Answer

There are $52$ cards in total, but you can effectively only pick from $48$ of them (the non-aces).

This gives the probability as:

$$\frac{\binom{48}{4}}{\binom{52}{4}}$$