Another quiz - this time staying on lottery topic!

Reply #5

Il2c — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:21:53 GMT

This would basically be giving you the winning lottery numbers.

Reply #4

Il2c — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:13:02 GMT

Well.

Let's just round it up to 0.2

Reply #3

Orange71 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:53:23 GMT

To eight significant digits I get 0.14015016.

To derive the solution, we need to apply the Inclusion, Exclusion Principle. In general, only mutually exclusive events can be added to arrive at a total probability. If events are not mutually exclusive, their intersections must be subtracted from the total. However, with combination of events adding or subtracting a particular number of combinations may then need to be compensated by (alternately) adding or subtracting higher levels of combina... [ More ]

Reply #2

Tucker Black — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:43:19 GMT

I'm stuck. It seems easy but my formula doesn't match a simulation. My formula said 0.139078 but my simulation said 0.1399.

Reply #1

Orange71 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:19:59 GMT

To make it more interesting, solve for the probability that at least m balls are not drawn out of n 6/54 lottery games where 1 m 48 and n 9 .

Another quiz - this time staying on lottery topic!

Orange71 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 23:39:19 GMT

Suppose we have a 6/54 lottery. In a given lottery draw 6 balls are randomly picked in the range of 1 to 54. What is the probability that, in 50 draws, at least 1 ball is not drawn