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MATH / Two jokers are added to a 52 card deck and the entire stack of 54 cards is shuffled randomly. What is the expected number of cards that will be strictly between the two jokers?

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Two jokers are added to a 5252 card deck and the entire stack of 5454 cards is shuffled randomly. What is the expected number of cards that will be strictly between the two jokers?
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Two jokers are added to a 52 card deck and the entire stack of 54 cards is shuffled randomly.  What is the expected number of cards that will be strictly between the two jokers?
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Two jokers are added to a $52$ card deck and the entire stack of $54$ cards is shuffled randomly.  What is the expected number of cards that will be strictly between the two jokers?

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Counting & Probability

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