lottery Definition and 72 Threads

What are the odds that any 6 consecutive numbers in any order can come in the UK lottery?

Homework Statement You decide to play monthly in two different lotteries, and you stop playing as soon as you win a prize in one (or both) lotteries of at least one million euros. Suppose that every time you participate in these lotteries, the probability to win one million (or more)...

http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=58431 Tsu knew a hospital maintenance worker who won California's Big Spin twice. IIRC, he won 100K and then 50K. I also had a cousin who claimed to win the lottery twice, but later we learned that she was dipping into Grandma's...

Probability question How do I solve (m t) >= 8.26E6 ?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28802581/ Headline says: "Neb lottery draws same numbers twice in a row. The odds of such an occurance? One is a million. To begin with it was not the lottery, it was the pick 3, the number being 196. One in a million?

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I need help writing the code for a simple lottery machine. Here are the key points. Ask the user to choose 3 numbers between 1 and 20. Randomly generate 3 winning numbers that are between 1 and 20. Determine how many, if any, of the users numbers match the winning numbers. If (hypothetically)...

Well, today was my advanced functions exam; so needless to say I was less than excited to wake up this morning. Long story short, I got a 97% on the exam (which is a big deal for someone who failed grade 11 applied math — would've got 100% too, if it hadn't been for a stupid stupid typo)...

Every week you buy a lottery ticket and choose the same numbers. But one week you forget to do so, and your numbers come up. Would you be disappointed? (Assume that the number-picking machine is not influenced by whether or not you buy a ticket).

A rocket is preparing for journey from Earth to Alpha Centauri. The Earth and Alpha Centauri systems are at rest with each other and have syncronized their clocks to time t=0. ________E__________________________________________________A (distance: 4 ly) ________R Rocket speed is known...

An instant lottery ticket consists of a collection of boxes cpvered with gray wax. For a subset of the boxes, the gray wax hides a special mark. If a player scratches off the correct number of the marked boxes (and no boxes without mark), then that ticket is a winner, Design an instant lottery...

In ‘Lotto’ (a National Lottery game) there are 49 balls, each having a distinct number from the set S = {1, 2, . . . , 49}. A draw consists of randomly choosing six ‘main’ balls followed by one ‘bonus’ ball. To play the game you choose six distinct numbers from S before the draw, and you win a...

Random Number Generator, Lottery, and duplicates Hi, I'm new here and looking for a bit of help and some overall conversation on a new project I'm working on. It fundamentally surrounds an international online lottery pool where visitors can join, buy a lottery ticket and then use the power of...

A buddy from work and I have been debating an article we read the other day stating that it is a bad investment to play scratch lottery ticket games that have been on the market for an extended period of time (ex: hypothetical 2004 Christmas Game Scratcher). The article stated that this is due...

Hi, It has been a long time, and I do not remember how to set up a probability calculation with the following variables - take a lottery that draws 12 numbers, values 0-9 only, from a hopper that replaces the number after it is drawn, i.e. probability of each number appearing remains...

there is an interesting show I've caught on satellite which is based on a domestic lottery you are given the choice of having 100,000 lottery tickets or a $20,000 cash prize now to simplify, the odds of matching 3 balls out of 6 is ~ 1 in 56.6 & the prize for matching 3 balls is $10...

If these new private space companies like Vergin Galactic each had a lottery for a chance to win a 'free' ride in space, would you buy a ticket? If so, how much would you be willing to buy a ticket for?

A lottery offer two options for the prize. Option A $1000 a week for life Option B $600 000 in one lump sum The current expected rate of return for large investments is 7%/a compounded weekly a) which option would the winner choose if he expects to live for another 25 years? For this...

if there is lottery where there are six numbers of 49 drawn and each number is discarded one drawn what are the total combinations. I think it would be 49 choose 6 but that only gives 14 million and I figured it would be higher. can someone verify this? thanks :smile:

Knowing that the chances to win is very slim, mathematically it is 1/billions, why do you buy it? Does the profit of lottery really go to Charity? How many percents? Anyway, when i read the news about people winning jackpot (millions dollar), it makes me jealous! :cry: How is the...

Ok guys, it has been a while since I worked with probability so I might need some things cleaned up. Basically the scenerio is this: each ticket has a 1/20 chance of winning. Let's say you buy three tickets a year. ( you get a discount :P ) The chance of NOT winning is (19/20)^3...

Lottery and "special" results? Here's something I always think about when filling my lottery tickets... the chances that the result would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are the same as the chances of getting 3, 7, 12, 13, 18, 27, right? So why is it that people would rather bet on the latter set of...