THE LOTTERY: A TAX ON PEOPLE WHO ARE BAD AT MATH

C = the player’s powerball number does not match the powerball number drawn by the lottery organization. There are 53C5 ways for the lottery organization to draw five different white balls from a set of 53 balls. Thus the sample space for this phase of the drawing consists of (53C5) equally likely outcomes. Hence, P(A) = 1 / 53C5. ................
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