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?
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The total number of subsets of 5 elements from the given set of 62 elements is  C%5B62%5D%5E5 = %2862%2A61%2A60%2A59%2A58%29%2F%281%2A2%2A3%2A4%2A5%29 = 6471002.

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


Hence, the probability to win is the reciprocal number


    P = 1%2F6471002 = 1.5436%2A10%5E%28-7%29.    ANSWER

Solved.