Question

A standard deck of cards has 52 cards. If you draw one card at a time from the deck, without replacement, how many different ways can you draw all of the cards? Remember that "without replacement" means that the cards are not returned to the deck after they are chosen.

Answer 1

Answer:

52! ≈ 8.0658 x 10^67  

Step-by-step explanation:

52 card options for the first card

51 card options for the second

50 card options for the third

...

2 options for the 51st card

1 option for the 52nd card

52!

The earth is about 4 billion years old. It would require 126,230,400,000,000,000 copies of earth dealing one deck per second for 4 billion years to deal the whole set.