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Drawing days Tuesday & Friday at 11pm ET / 8pm PTwww.megamillions.comSep 4, 2021 · This video presents the mathematics required to calculate the probability of winning the Mega Millions jackpot, as well as all of the smaller prizes that can...
- 36 min
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- Mr. S Math
Second Prize Level: Match all five numbers only (1 in 12,607,306.25 odds) Step 1: The chance of getting 5 numbers correct out of 5 numbers drawn from 70 unique numbers is 1 in 12,103,014 (see #1, Step 1 above.) Step 2: The chance of correctly choosing the Mega Ball is 1 in 25.
Step 2: Calculate how many ways the correct Mega Ball number can be chosen from 46 unique numbers. The chance of correctly choosing the Mega Ball is simply 1 in 46. Step 3: Determine the chance of choosing both correctly by multiplying these figures together: 1 1 1 ∗ or 1 chance in 175,711,536.
Jul 28, 2022 · 5 x 4 x 3 x 2, which is the number of ways to sequence five objects (remember, the lottery doesn’t care about order). When you’re done, multiply by 25, because you’ve got only a 1 in 25 ...
Mega Millions has recently changed to 5 from 70 and 1 from 25 for the Mega Ball. This video shows how to work out the odds of winning the popular USA lottery...
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- How to... Solve Puzzles
I've been asked to calculate the probability of winning the Mega Millions jackpot. So I thought that's what I would do this video on. So the first thing is to make sure we understand what does winning the jackpot actually mean. So there's going to be two bins of balls. One of them is going to have 56 balls in it, so 56 in one bin.
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- Sal Khan
Understanding The Odds. Considering both pools of numbers you need to choose from the odds of winning a USA Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. The odds are definitely not in your favor. It’s difficult to picture yourself winning the jackpot when the odds are as astronomically high as 1 in 302.5 million, but the possibility lies there ...
