SOLUTION: Info: There are two little lotteries in town, each of which sells exactly 100 tickets. 1. If each lottery has only one winning ticket, and you buy one ticket to each of the two

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Question 429845: Info: There are two little lotteries in town, each of which sells exactly 100 tickets.
1. If each lottery has only one winning ticket, and you buy one ticket to each of the two lotteries, what is the probability that you will have 'two' winning tickets?
2. If each lottery has two winning tickets, and you buy two tickets to the same lottery, what is the probability that you will have two winning tickets?

Answer by sudhanshu_kmr(1152)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1) probability = 1/100 * 1/100
= 1/10000

2)
probability = 1/100C2
= 1/[50*99]
= 1/4950


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