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How lucky you are if you win the lottery?

How lucky you are if you win the lottery?

Anibal Rodriguez
Anibal Rodriguez
October 18, 2013

Many people find in the lottery the chance to change their life, but the reality is that the odds are so low that most people can be playing for hundreds of years without ever get closer to the prize. A thought usually goes through the mind of the players is: "If there are people who won the price, why cannot I win it too?", which I do not doubt, but let us look at the numbers and see how lucky we would be if we won the lottery.

Let's explain how to calculate the chance to win the lottery based on 49 possible numbers, where 6 numbers are randomly selected in each drawn.