SOLUTION: If 200 tickets are sold for a raffle and 2 prizes are to be awarded, find the probability that one person will win both prizes if that person buys exactly 2 tickets.
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Question 534166: If 200 tickets are sold for a raffle and 2 prizes are to be awarded, find the probability that one person will win both prizes if that person buys exactly 2 tickets.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If 200 tickets are sold for a raffle and 2 prizes are to be awarded, find the probability that one person will win both prizes if that person buys exactly 2 tickets.
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There is one pair of winning tickets.
There are 200C2 different pairs of tickets.
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P(2 winning tickets) = 1/200C2 = 1/19,900
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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