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Jul 28, 2004, 8:31 am (6 comments)
A single ticket sold in Staten Island, New York, has matched the winning combination in the latest Mega Millions lottery drawing and is worth $10 million.
The Mega Millions jackpot stays at $10 million for Friday's game.
Tuesday's winning ticket had all five lotto numbers plus the Mega Ball.
Thirty-four tickets matched all five lotto numbers but not the Mega Ball: 3 from Georgia, 2 from Illinois, 3 from Maryland, 5 from Michigan, 4 from New Jersey, 6 from New York, 4 from Ohio and 7 from Virginia. Each ticket is worth $175,000.
Eighteen tickets matched four numbers plus the Mega Ball, and are worth $5,000 each.
The winning numbers from Tuesday night's drawing were eight, 10, 11, 13 and 24. The Mega Ball number was 46.
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Anybody else notice this? The number of $175,000 winners was WAY more than what was mathematically expected. The probability of there being 34 winners is given a good approximation by the Poisson distribution formula.
260,317 * 43 = 11,193,631 tickets sold. So n = 11,193,631
n*p = (11,193,631/2,649,920) = 4.224 expected number of winners.
So the probability of there being 34 winners is: ((4.224)^34 * e^-4.224)/34!
which is 9.3323 * 10^-20 or 0.000000000000000000093323
It appears we have just witnessed the impossible!
You posted this same message on another thread - no need to post one message multiple times.
Sorry Todd, I guess I got a li
Let's hope he/she/they chose CASH (in NY you still have to choose when you PLAY).
Gee all...
Not me either.