SOLUTION: In one lottery a player wins the jackpot by matching all 5 numbers drawn from white balls 1-41 and matching the number on the gold ball ( 1-35). What is the probability of winning
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Question 1007468: In one lottery a player wins the jackpot by matching all 5 numbers drawn from white balls 1-41 and matching the number on the gold ball ( 1-35). What is the probability of winning the jackpot? Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You can find this probability by multiplying 41 chosen 5 at a time by the 1 in 35 chance of getting the gold ball...so we get
(41!)/(41-5)!(5!) = 749398
times
35
equals
26,228,930
Thus your chances of hitting it are 1 in 26,228,930.
