How can I win on Lottery?

Assume you have a lottery ticket that contains 56 numbers. To play, you have to choose 6 numbers from that collection. If you choose 6 correct numbers, only then you can win. Based on those assumptions, you can find that you have a probability of S S to win.

What is the following number equal to? S 1 S^{-1}


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The answer is 32468436.

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2 solutions

Aditya Raut
Jul 22, 2014

Simply, you have ( 56 6 ) \dbinom{56}{6} different possibilities for the Sample Space \color{#3D99F6}{\textbf{Sample Space}} and out of them, only 1 is the correct choice.

Thus the probability of having it right is 1 ( 56 6 ) \dfrac{1}{\binom{56}{6}} .

Hence S 1 = ( 56 6 ) = 32468436 S^{-1} = \dbinom{56}{6} = \boxed{32468436}

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. . - 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Let there be n n ways for a "good" selection and m m ways for a "bad" selection out of a total of n + m n+m possibilities. Take N N samples and let x i x_i equal 1 1 if selection i i is successful and 0 0 if it is not. Let x x be the total number of successful selections,

x i = 1 N x i . x\equiv\sum_{i=1}^Nx_i.

The probability of i i successful selections is then

\eqalign{P(x=i) &= \dfrac{[\#\text{ ways for }i\text{ successes}][\#\text{ ways for }N-i\text{ failures}]}{[\text{total number of ways to select}]} \\ &= \dfrac{\dbinom ni\dbinom m{N-i}}{\dbinom{m+n} N}\\ &= \dfrac{m!n!N!(m+n-N)!}{i!(n-i)!(m+i-N)!(N-i)!(m+n)!}.}


In this problem we recognize that we have for "good" n = 6 n=6 , for "bad" m = 50 m=50 , for "drawn" N = 6 N=6 , for successful selections i = 6 i=6 . Therefore according to the formula, the probability is:

\eqalign{P(x=6)&= \dfrac{\dbinom 66\dbinom {50}{6-6}}{\dbinom{50+6} 6}\\ &= \dfrac{50!6!6!(50+6-6)!}{6!(6-6)!(50+6-6)!(6-6)!(50+6)!} \\ &=\dfrac{6!50!}{56!}. }

Which is equal to 1 / 32 468 436 1/32\,468\,436 according to WolframAlpha , therefore the number \cal S \cal S we specified is equal to 32 468 436 32\,468\,436 .

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