What are the odds in winning just the powerball number (1 in 55) for both people. Does playing powerball once each 55 consecutive days increase your odds? And by how much. We figure person A has a 1 in 55 chance of winning. What statistical odds does the person B have?
(A) plays powerball (55 possibles) one time.(B) plays powerball 55 consecutive days.What are odds on each one?passions soap opera
About 0.64 probability of winning at least once.
Given the way you've set things out, A has a 1/55 (approx. 0.018) chance of winning by playing once.
For B, the probability of winning at least once is one minus the probability of not winning at all.
P(not winning on any particular day) = 54/55
P(not winning 55 times) = (54/55)^55
P(winning at least once) = 1 - (54/55)^55 = 0.635 approx.
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