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Algebra.Com's Answer #359244 by stanbon(75887)![]() ![]() ![]() 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 \n" ); document.write( "---- \n" ); document.write( "You would have to buy 20C6 = 38760 tickets \n" ); document.write( "--- \n" ); document.write( "60,000/38760 = $1.54 \n" ); document.write( "---- \n" ); document.write( "If each ticket costs <= $1.54 you could afford to buy \n" ); document.write( "all the tickets. \n" ); document.write( "If each ticket costs more than $154 you could not \n" ); document.write( "afford to buy all the tickets. \n" ); document.write( "========================= \n" ); document.write( "Cheers, \n" ); document.write( "Stan H. \n" ); document.write( "============ \n" ); document.write( " |