What is the probability that you win the California Super Lotto Plus? The California super lotto is played by selecting ve numbers between 1 and 47, and one super ball between the numbers 1 and 27.

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What is the probability that you win the California Super Lotto Plus? The California super lotto is played by selecting ve numbers between 1 and 47, and one super ball between the numbers 1 and 27.

anonymous · Answer

what are ve numbers?

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

probably meant to say "five"

anonymous · Answer

oooh 
i have seen people use ve to mean negative, never knew why

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

oh true, 

+ve = positive
-ve = negative

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

I don't like that notation though

anonymous · Answer

Sorry, yes I meant "five"  @satellite73 @jim_thompson5910

anonymous · Answer

is this a statistic problem? @jim_thompson5910 @satellite73

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

close, a probability problem

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

how many ways are there to pick the 5 numbers?

anonymous · Answer

well if there are 47 numbers. so I multiply 47X5? @jim_thompson5910

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

more like, 47^5 = 47*47*47*47*47 = ??

anonymous · Answer

thats 229345007 @jim_thompson5910

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

then you multiply that by 27 because there are 27 ways to pick the 6th number

anonymous · Answer

6192315189

anonymous · Answer

@jim_thompson5910 ^

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

looks good

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

the probability of picking all 6 numbers correctly is therefore 

$$\Large \frac{1}{6,192,315,189}$$

because there is only one way to pick all 6 numbers correctly

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

you can use a calculator to approximate 1/(6,192,315,189) to get 0.0000000001615

a very very small probability

anonymous · Answer

Thats a very very small chance