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So I have a question I was going over in a textbook about calculating the probability of winning the 6/49 lotto. Which means you have to pick 6 correct numbers out of 49, order does not matter. So I got that:
P(L) = 6/49 * 5/48* 4/47 * ...* 1/44 = 1 / 13,983816
but then there is a comment afterwards that I can't figure out the solution:
"So if you were to play once a year, on the average you would win once every 13,983,816 years. If you played once per day, given that there are 364.25 days in a year,on average you would win once every 268,920 years.
How do they obtain the 268,920 years? What am I missing in being able to convert it over?
Thanks
P(L) = 6/49 * 5/48* 4/47 * ...* 1/44 = 1 / 13,983816
but then there is a comment afterwards that I can't figure out the solution:
"So if you were to play once a year, on the average you would win once every 13,983,816 years. If you played once per day, given that there are 364.25 days in a year,on average you would win once every 268,920 years.
How do they obtain the 268,920 years? What am I missing in being able to convert it over?
Thanks