Rollover/No. of Winner Probabilities at 550M annuity. https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/261131 Lottery Post Forum Topic: Rollover/No. of Winner Probabilities at 550M annuity. en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Reply #1 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/261131/3067797 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/261131/3067797 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:27:03 GMT Prob988 Also, because of the higher probability of multiple winners, the expectation value has fallen slightly and is now 0.93

]]> Prob988 Rollover/No. of Winner Probabilities at 550M annuity. https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/261131 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/261131 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:24:41 GMT Prob988 The Powerball Jackpot has already risen significantly since this morning and is now reported as $350.1M Cash.

This suggests that the lottery expects to sell 392.7M for this drawing.

The Poisson distribution for numbers of winners at this sale level for randomized tickets is as follows:

k, number of winners p(m,k)

0 34.50%

1 36.72%

2 19.53%

3 6.93%

4 1.84%

5 0.39%

6 0.07%

7 0.01

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