SOLUTION: 25,000 lottery tickets have been sold and Jesse has bought one of them. There are 10 prizes. What is the probability that Jesse will win first or second prize?

Question 1145957: 25,000 lottery tickets have been sold and Jesse has bought one of them. There are 10 prizes. What is the probability that Jesse will win first or second prize?
Answer by ikleyn(52872) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.

P =  +  =  =  = 0.00008.


The fact that there are 10 prizes is IRRELEVANT in this problem.


The probability to get one of the two specific tickets in this case is the same   for any two specific selected tickets.

RELATED QUESTIONS
25,000 lottery tickets have been sold and Jesse has bought one of them. There are 10... (answered by Alan3354,ikleyn)

25,000 lottery tickets have been sold and Jesse has bought one of them. There are 10... (answered by ikleyn,rothauserc)

One state lottery has 1,100 prizes of $1, 105 prizes of $10, 25 prizes of $60, 5 prizes... (answered by Boreal,stanbon)

One state lottery has 1,100 prizes of $1, 105 prizes of $10, 25 prizes of $60, 5 prizes... (answered by Fombitz)

One state lottery has 900 prizes of $1, 110 prizes of $10, 15 prizes of $65, 5 prizes of... (answered by stanbon)

16. Central high school is selling lottery tickets to raise money for a new sound system. (answered by venugopalramana)

A lottery has a $ 2 000 000 first prize, a $ 250 000 second prize, and a three $5000... (answered by math_tutor2020,ikleyn)

A lottery has a grand prize of $280,000, five runner-up prizes of $28,000 each, eleven... (answered by ikleyn)

There are 1000 tickets sold in a raffle. If you have 4 of these tickets and 10 prizes are (answered by sudhanshu_kmr)