If you buy a school raffle ticket for $1, your overall probability of winning at least one of the prizes is 0.02. You can improve your odds of winning something by buying two tickets. What is the probability that one or the other of your tickets will win something? (Round your answer to the nearest ten-thousandth)

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anonymous · Answer

all tickets should, ideally have the same probability of being the "winner". so 0.02

anonymous · Answer

the answer choices are:
A.0.0014
B. 0.7400
C. 0.0396
D. 0.0740
E. 0.0726

anonymous · Answer

well, unless there's more information not being given or my assumption that all tickets have equal chances is wrong, then even if you know your first ticket was not a winner, these answers don't work because you now have a 1/49 chance instead of 1/50 which is only 0.02041 as a decimal.

anonymous · Answer

more information is needed

anonymous · Answer

there wasnt anymore information. but the answer is C