Exactly two aces in a bridge hand

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From a well-shuffled standard $52$ -card deck, $13$ cards are dealt. What is the probability the hand contains exactly two aces? Round to the nearest hundredth.

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Hypergeometric: choose $2$ of $4$ aces and $11$ of $48$ non-aces.
Divide $\binom{4}{2}\binom{48}{11}$ by $\binom{52}{13}$ .

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0.21 (± 0.005)

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