Probability of a rollover for $550M Jackpot. https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/253656 Lottery Post Forum Topic: Probability of a rollover for $550M Jackpot. en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Reply #2 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/253656/2805788 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/253656/2805788 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:32:23 GMT HoLeeKau Last night Nightline said only 60% of ticket combos were sold, but when I saw the birthday numbers drawn I figured it would be won.

]]> HoLeeKau Reply #1 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/253656/2805739 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/253656/2805739 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:59:38 GMT ressuccess Somebody in Arizona and Missouri split a $580 million Powerball Jackpot Prob988.

]]> ressuccess Probability of a rollover for $550M Jackpot. https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/253656 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/253656 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:31:30 GMT Prob988 The upgraded jackpot will result in a new rollover probability. It would appear that the lottery expects to sell $460M worth of tickets for this drawing, for a total number of tickets of 230M.

The Poisson distribution for this number of tickets, assumed to be randomly chosen, given the odds, gives the following rollover and number of winners probability:

k, number of winners p(m,k)

0 26.88%

1 35.31%

2 23.20%

3 10.16%

4 3.34%

5 0.88%

6 0.19%

7 0... [ More ]

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