SOLUTION: You bought 5 raffle tickets for an I-Pod Touch at a fundraiser. 2000 tickets were sold in total. You bought 2 tickets for an MP3 player. 1000 tickets were sold. What are the chance

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Question 1041163: You bought 5 raffle tickets for an I-Pod Touch at a fundraiser. 2000 tickets were sold in total. You bought 2 tickets for an MP3 player. 1000 tickets were sold. What are the chances that you will win both? Use a formula to find a solution
Found 2 solutions by Boreal, ikleyn:
Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It is the joint probabilities or P(raffle)*P(iPod)=5/2000*2/1000
That is 1/400*1/500=
1/20,000=0.0005

Answer by ikleyn(52800)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is the joint probabilities or P(raffle)*P(iPod) = .

That is  =  = 0.000005.


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