Rollover probabilities for Powerball at $400M annuity. https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/264490 Lottery Post Forum Topic: Rollover probabilities for Powerball at $400M annuity. en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Rollover probabilities for Powerball at $400M annuity. https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/264490 https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/264490 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:22:02 GMT Prob988 The Powerball jackpot now stands at 400M, and from the annuity values of this jackpot and the previous one, one can determine that the lottery is estimating 88,377,000 tickets will be sold, with sales being twice that amount.

Assuming that the estimate is accurate - I will try to repost new figures if, as I expect, the jackpot grows - the Poisson distribution for the number of winners is as follows:

k, number of winners p(m,k)

0 60.39%

1 30.46%

2 7.68%

3 1.29

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