SOLUTION: I have to do an assignment where I inherited $60,000. and want to play the lottery tomorrow to win 5 million dollars. To win I have to match a six digit number where each digit ca

Question 550699: I have to do an assignment where I inherited $60,000. and want to play the lottery tomorrow to win 5 million dollars. To win I have to match a six digit number where each digit can be a number from 0 � 20 and the order of the numbers does not matter. I have to show the formulas to use to calculate if I have enough money to buy a ticket for every possibility.
I've read over the chapter four times in my textbook and I still can't figure out how to do the manipulatives.
Please help - thank you.

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I have to do an assignment where I inherited $60,000. and want to play the lottery tomorrow to win 5 million dollars. To win I have to match a six digit number where each digit can be a number from 0 � 20 and the order of the numbers does not matter. I have to show the formulas to use to calculate if I have enough money to buy a ticket for every possibility
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You would have to buy 20C6 = 38760 tickets
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60,000/38760 = $1.54
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If each ticket costs <= $1.54 you could afford to buy
all the tickets.
If each ticket costs more than $154 you could not
afford to buy all the tickets.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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