SOLUTION: Please help, thank you!!! To buy a ticket for a weekly state lottery, a person selects 6 integers from 1 to 36 The order doesn't matter and you can pick any number more than onc

Question 985134: Please help, thank you!!!
To buy a ticket for a weekly state lottery, a person selects 6 integers from 1 to 36 The order doesn't matter and you can pick any number more than once. There are 1,947,792 such combinations of six digits Mark and nine friends want to win the lottery by buying every possible ticket, and plan to spend 16 hours a day doing it Assume that person buys one ticket every five seconds What do you think of this plan Can the project be completed with in a week?
Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It would take 1 person working 16 hours a day 24.1 weeks.
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It would take 10 people 2.4 weeks.
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ANSWER: Ten people working 16 hours a day could not purchase all of the tickets in one week.

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