SOLUTION: A lottery has 1000 000 tickets and draws 100 tickets to award prizes. How many tickets would you expect to have to purchase before you could win a prize?

Question 1177413: A lottery has 1000 000 tickets and draws 100 tickets to award prizes.
How many tickets would you expect to have to purchase before you could win a prize?
Answer by ikleyn(52878) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A lottery has 1000 000 tickets and draws 100 tickets to award prizes.
How many tickets would you expect to have to purchase before you could win a prize?
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1,000,000 - 100 + 1.      ANSWER


If I buy this number of tickets, it GUARANTEES that I win at least one award prize.

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