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Expected Value, Linearity & Advanced Probability · Challenge problem

Five cards are dealt from a standard 5252-card deck. The 1313 ranks are in the order 2,3,…,10,J,Q,K,A2,3,\ldots,10,J,Q,K,A, with the ace counting only as high, so two ranks are adjacent if they are next to each other in this list (KK and AA are adjacent; AA and 22 are not). What is the expected number of pairs of cards in the hand whose ranks are adjacent? Express your answer as a common fraction.