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Lottery Odds for a confidence interval
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Lottery OddsLive
the tax on not knowing math
Odds of the jackpot
1 in 13,983,816
Pick 6 from 49
Spending $2 a ticket, a win is expected about once every 28.0 million dollars played.
1748× more likely to die in a car crash this year.
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Winning a jackpot means matching every drawn number, and the odds are the number of possible combinations, C(pool, picks). Adding just a few numbers to the pool multiplies the odds dramatically — a 6-from-49 draw is 1 in 14 million, 6-from-59 nearly 1 in 45 million. You are far likelier to be struck by lightning, which is why lotteries are so profitable.
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Combinations13,983,816
Jackpot odds1 in 13,983,816
Tickets to expect a win~13,983,816
Governing equation
Reading this result: Matching 6 of 49 is a 1-in-13,983,816 shot: buying one ticket every draw (twice weekly), you would wait about 134,460 years on average for a single jackpot.
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