SOLUTION: Many states in U.S.A have a lottery game, usually called a Pick-4, in which you pick a fourdigit number such as 7359. During the lottery drawing, there are four bins, each containi

Question 1167754: Many states in U.S.A have a lottery game, usually called a Pick-4, in which you pick a fourdigit number such as 7359. During the lottery drawing, there are four bins, each containing balls
numbered 0 through 9. One ball is drawn from each bin to form the four-digit winning number.
a. You purchase one ticket with one four-digit number. What is the probability that you will
win this lottery game?

Answer by ikleyn(52794) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The space of events has 10000 =   elements

    (assuming that leading zeroes are allowed.  I take it as if it is given by DEFAULT, since the opposite is not stated).


There is only one winning ticket/number.


So the probability is   =  = 0.0001 = 0.01%.     ANSWER

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