SOLUTION: 16. Central high school is selling lottery tickets to raise money for a new sound system. There are 18 prizes for the lottery, and the students and teachers sold 2400 tickets.
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: 16. Central high school is selling lottery tickets to raise money for a new sound system. There are 18 prizes for the lottery, and the students and teachers sold 2400 tickets.
A. what fraction of the people who bought tickets will win a prize?
B. what fraction of the people who bought tickets will not win a prize?
C. what is the probability that someone who buys one ticket will win a prize?
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16. Central high school is selling lottery tickets to raise money for a new sound system. There are 18 prizes for the lottery, and the students and teachers sold 2400 tickets.
A. what fraction of the people who bought tickets will win a prize?
=18/2400=3/400=0.03/4=0.0075
B. what fraction of the people who bought tickets will not win a prize?
=1-0.0075=0.9925
C. what is the probability that someone who buys one ticket will win a prize?
=1/2400....OR....(1/24)%
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