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In Pennsylvania’s Cash 5 lottery, balls are numbered 1 to
Chapter 5, Problem 16CT(choose chapter or problem)
Problem 16CT
In Pennsylvania’s Cash 5 lottery, balls are numbered 1 to 43. Five balls are selected randomly, without replacement. The order in which the balls are selected does not matter. To win, your numbers must match the five selected. Determine your probability of winning Pennsylvania’s Cash 5 with one ticket.
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QUESTION:
Problem 16CT
In Pennsylvania’s Cash 5 lottery, balls are numbered 1 to 43. Five balls are selected randomly, without replacement. The order in which the balls are selected does not matter. To win, your numbers must match the five selected. Determine your probability of winning Pennsylvania’s Cash 5 with one ticket.
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In a Pennsylvania’s Cash 5 lottery, balls are numbered from 1 to 43.
Five balls are randomly selected without replacement.
In order to win the lottery, the numbers must match the five selected.
Here the order in which the balls are selected does not matter.
We have to find the probability of winning Pennsylvania’s Cash 5 with one ticket.