SOLUTION: In a 5/39 lottery, what's the probability of winning second prize?

Question 1175218: In a 5/39 lottery, what's the probability of winning second prize?

Answer by ikleyn(52815) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Without having clear description in the post, I don't know what     lottery means --- can only guess.


I will assume that among 39 tickets there are 5 winning:

    - one for the 1st prize;
    - one for the 2nd prize;
    - one for the 3rd prize;
    - one for the 4th prize;
    - one for the 5th prize.


Then the probability to win the second prize bying one ticket is  .

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Good lesson to learn from this post and from my solution is THIS:

    When the problem is about PROBABILITY, think about the associated probability/statistic experiment (!)

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