Ayecarumba
Ayecarumba
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February 11th, 2015 at 10:27:58 AM permalink
Tonight's Powerball drawing is for half a billion dollars.

The game consists of matching five white balls numbered from 1 - 59 without replacement, and one red "Powerball" number from 1 - 35.

What are the odds that at least two of the five white balls will be consecutive numbers?
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teliot
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February 11th, 2015 at 10:57:43 AM permalink
p = 1527625/5006386 = 30.5135%.
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Ayecarumba
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February 11th, 2015 at 11:31:44 AM permalink
Thank you sir!
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