SOLUTION: In a lottery, players must match five numbers plus a bonus number. Five white balls are chosen from 59 white balls numbered from 1 to 59, and one red ball (the bonus number) is cho

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Question 1180846: In a lottery, players must match five numbers plus a bonus number. Five white balls are chosen from 59 white balls numbered from 1 to 59, and one red ball (the bonus number) is chosen from 35 red balls numbered 1 to 35. How many different results are possible?
Answer by ikleyn(52793)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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    35 times number of combinations   = 35 * 5006386 = 175223510  different results are possible.    ANSWER

Solved.

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This problem is on COMBINATIONS.

On Combinations,  see introductory lessons
    - Introduction to Combinations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
    - Problems on Combinations
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".


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