Statistics and Probability

A standard (and shuffled) deck of 52 cards is placed in a single stack, and a dealer begins revealing cards on top of the deck one at a time. we say that a "match" occurs when a revealed card has the same suit or same face value as the previously revealed card. if all 52 cards are revealed one at a time, what is the expected number of matches that occur?

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