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Originally posted by Meta Ridley
100 chances at 1 in 47 million is a different thing than 1 in 470,000
Maybe you need special school
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Wrong.
If odds are 1 in 47 million per ticket,
with 100 different tickets you have 1 in 470,000 chance.
very easy to prove.
you buy a block of 100 tickets. there are 470,000 different 100 combination blocks, totaling 47 million combinations. Each block of 100 has 1 in 470,000 chance to hit.
now another thing to worry about,
it's very likely there will be more than one winner, since more people play when the prize gets big. even if you bought all possible combinations, it's very easy to lose money, especially factoring in the taxes.