SOLUTION: To win a​ lottery, 5 numbers are drawn at random from a pool of 62 numbers. Numbers cannot repeat. If a person has one​ ticket, what is the probability that they have the winni

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Question 1164522: To win a​ lottery, 5 numbers are drawn at random from a pool of 62 numbers. Numbers cannot repeat. If a person has one​ ticket, what is the probability that they have the winning​ ticket?
Answer by ikleyn(52873)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The total number of subsets of 5 elements from the given set of 62 elements is   =  = 6471002.

We need to match one and only one such a subset.


Hence, the probability to win is the reciprocal number


    P =  = .    ANSWER

Solved.



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