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Question 721104: Lottery Ticket. In a bin are an equal number of balls marked with the digits 1-9. Three balls are to be selected from the bin, one after the other, at random with replacement to make the winning three-digit lottery number. Ms. Jones has a lottery ticket with a three digit number in the range 000 to 999. Determine the probability that Ms. Jones's number is the winning number.
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Lottery Ticket. In a bin are an equal number of balls marked with the digits 1-9. Three balls are to be selected from the bin, one after the other, at random with replacement to make the winning three-digit lottery number. Ms. Jones has a lottery ticket with a three digit number in the range 000 to 999. Determine the probability that Ms. Jones's number is the winning number.
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# of possible 3-digit numbers: 1000
# of winners: 1
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P(get winning #) = 1/1000 = 0.001
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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