SOLUTION: The "Cash 5" game in Virginia Lottery requires that you select 5 different numbers from 34 in order to play the game. If you buy one ticket, what is the probability that you will w
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: The "Cash 5" game in Virginia Lottery requires that you select 5 different numbers from 34 in order to play the game. If you buy one ticket, what is the probability that you will win? This question is from textbook Fundamentals of Algebric Modeling
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The "Cash 5" game in Virginia Lottery requires that you select 5 different numbers from 34 in order to play the game. If you buy one ticket, what is the probability that you will win?
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There is only one winning set of 5 numbers.
But there are 34C5 = 278,256 different sets of 5.
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P(picking the winning 5) = 1/278,256 = 0.0000035938...
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You'll always win if you don't play that game.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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