SOLUTION: In a lottery, a player has to choose five numbers from 1 through 48 and one number from one through 39. It can be shown that there are about 66,780,000 different ways to do this

Question 1154531: In a lottery, a player has to choose five numbers from 1 through 48 and one number from one through 39. It can be shown that there are about 66,780,000 different ways to do this. Suppose that a group of 4,000 people decided to purchase tickets for all these numbers, and each ticket cost $1.00. How much should each person have expected to pay?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Divide HUGE number by 4000.

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SOLUTION: In a​ lottery, a player has to choose five numbers from 1 through 48 and one number from one through 39. It can be shown that there are about 66,780,000 different ways to do this

SOLUTION: In a lottery, a player has to choose five numbers from 1 through 48 and one number from one through 39. It can be shown that there are about 66,780,000 different ways to do this