In: Statistics and Probability
New Jersey Pick 6. In the New Jersey Pick 6 lottery game, a bettor selects six different numbers, each between 1 and 49. Winning the top prize requires that the selected numbers match those that are drawn, but the order does not matter.
b) How many different lottery tickets are possible? (c) Find the probability of winning the jackpot when one ticket is purchased?
b) How many different lottery tickets are possible?
There are 49 numbers between 1 and 49. The problem of selecting 6 different numbers, when order of selection is not important is combination
Number of ways of selecting 6 numbers from 49 is
ans: The number of possible lottery tickets is 13,983,816
(c) Find the probability of winning the jackpot when one ticket is purchased?
The winning numbers are 6 numbers drawn from these 49 numbers.
There is only 1 way that the selected numbers match the 6 winning numbers drawn.
The number of ways that the 6 numbers selected match the ones drawn is
the probability of winning the jackpot when one ticket is purchased is
ans: the probability of winning the jackpot when one ticket is purchased is 1/13983816 (or 0.000000072 )