document.write( "Question 1206157: In a lottery game, a player picks six numbers from 1 to 24. If the player matches all six numbers, they win 30,000 dollars. Otherwise, they lose $1.\r
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document.write( "The number of all possible sextuples of numbers from 1 to 24, without repetitions, is\r\n" );
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document.write( " =  = 134596.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, the probability for the player to get the winning sextuple is  .\r\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore, the expected value of the game is\r\n" );
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document.write( "     - 1 = -0.777110761  dollars.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It means that a player loses, in average, 0.777110761 of a dollar \r\n" );
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