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I prefer to play the lotto games with the smaller prizes because the probability of winning something is much greater.
Neither. Experimental or theoretical probabilities are methods that may be used to determine the probability that a given set of numbers will win, whereas your winning is the outcome of the event.
Very poor. New York Lotto, for instance, is 6 balls in a field of 54, with two games played for a dollar. The odds of hitting the jackpot is thus 2 in 25,827,165.
In the 6/55 draw it is a choice of 6 out of 55 which is: 55C6 = 55!/6!(55-6)! = 28,989,675 Just to put it into perspective, using the statistics for the US for 2001 to 2010, the chance of being struck by lightning is about 800,000 to 1 (about 35 times more likely than winning the jackpot), and the chance of dying from being struck about 8,000,000 to 1 (about 31/2 times more likely than winning the jackpot) and yet who wants to be struck, or killed by lightning when they are more likely than winning the jackpot?
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