South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn

Posted by x32n23nr on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:25AM
from the bbc.com dept.

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Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn by unklefolk on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:49AM (#25278248)

What are the chances? 6 consecutive numbers when 6 balls are picked from a set of 50 balls? Ref: https://www.nationallottery.co.za/about/how-to-powerball

(Actually, the 6th ball - the "powerball" is picked from a set of 20 just to complicate things)

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Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn by unklefolk on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:01PM (#25278422)

My rough estimate is: 1/2 * 10/49 * 4/48 * 3/47 * 2/46 * 1/20 = 1 in 3,390,016

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