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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 ofWhat is the following number equal to? S − 1
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Let there be n ways for a "good" selection and m ways for a "bad" selection out of a total of n + m possibilities. Take N samples and let x i equal 1 if selection i is successful and 0 if it is not. Let x be the total number of successful selections,
x ≡ i = 1 ∑ N x i .
The probability of 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 , for "bad" m = 5 0 , for "drawn" N = 6 , for successful selections 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 / 3 2 4 6 8 4 3 6 according to WolframAlpha , therefore the number \cal S we specified is equal to 3 2 4 6 8 4 3 6 .
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Simply, you have ( 6 5 6 ) different possibilities for the Sample Space and out of them, only 1 is the correct choice.
Thus the probability of having it right is ( 6 5 6 ) 1 .
Hence S − 1 = ( 6 5 6 ) = 3 2 4 6 8 4 3 6