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  2. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    In a typical 6/49 game, each player chooses six distinct numbers from a range of 1–49. If the six numbers on a ticket match the numbers drawn by the lottery, the ticket holder is a jackpot winner—regardless of the order of the numbers. The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816.

  3. Lottery (decision theory) - Wikipedia

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    In expected utility theory, a lottery is a discrete distribution of probability on a set of states of nature.The elements of a lottery correspond to the probabilities that each of the states of nature will occur, (e.g. Rain: 0.70, No Rain: 0.30). [1]

  4. Quick Pick vs Picking Your Own Lotto Numbers: Is One ... - AOL

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    Odds are calculated by the total number of tickets in a scratch ticket game divided by the total number of prizes in that game. Study the odds of winning and the prize structure for the games you ...

  5. Gambler's fallacy - Wikipedia

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    For a fair 16-sided die, the probability of each outcome occurring is ⁠ 1 / 16 ⁠ (6.25%). If a win is defined as rolling a 1, the probability of a 1 occurring at least once in 16 rolls is: [] = % The probability of a loss on the first roll is ⁠ 15 / 16 ⁠ (93.75%). According to the fallacy, the player should have a higher chance of ...

  6. Lottery paradox - Wikipedia

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    Although the first published statement of the lottery paradox appears in Kyburg's 1961 Probability and the Logic of Rational Belief, the first formulation of the paradox appears in his "Probability and Randomness", a paper delivered at the 1959 meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, and the 1960 International Congress for the History and Philosophy of Science, but published in the ...

  7. Passenger name record - Wikipedia

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    Ticketing details, either a ticket number or a ticketing time limit. Itinerary of at least one segment, which must be the same for all passengers listed. Name of the person providing the information or making the booking. Other information, such as a timestamp and the agency's pseudo-city code, will go into the booking automatically. All ...

  8. Watch Out for These 4 Ticketmaster and StubHub Scams - AOL

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    With icons like Taylor Swift on tour this summer, concert ticket purchases are booming. Unfortunately, so are ticket scams. In 2022, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) received over 140 reports on ...

  9. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.