SOLUTION: A raffle has $5 tickets and is selling 2000 of these tickets. The prizes are 1st place: $1000 in cash, 2nd place: 5 - $300 cash , and 3rd place 10 - $100 cash. Tickets will be draw

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Question 462510: A raffle has $5 tickets and is selling 2000 of these tickets. The prizes are 1st place: $1000 in cash, 2nd place: 5 - $300 cash , and 3rd place 10 - $100 cash. Tickets will be drawn randomly once all the tickets are sold. If you buy 1 ticket, what is your expected value? Enter just the number as a dollar amount, rounded to the nearest cent (if necessary). No $ sign please.
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A raffle has $5 tickets and is selling 2000 of these tickets. The prizes are 1st place: $1000 in cash, 2nd place: 5 - $300 cash , and 3rd place 10 - $100 cash. Tickets will be drawn randomly once all the tickets are sold. If you buy 1 ticket, what is your expected value? Enter just the number as a dollar amount, rounded to the nearest cent (if necessary). No $ sign please.
There are 16 winning tickets and therefore 
2000-16 or 1984 losing tickets.  You must subtract
the price of the ticket from the winnings:

Prizes  Probability      
  x        P(x)          x*P(x)
 995      1/2000       995/2000
 295      5/2000      1475/2000 
  95     10/2000       950/2000
  -5   1984/2000     -9920/2000 
-------------------------------------
Totals      1        -6500/2000 = -$3.25

If this identical raffle were held many times and you entered
every time, you would expect to average losing $3.25 per time
you entered in the long run.

Edwin
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