The Sorry State Lottery requires you to select five different numbers from 0 thr

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The Sorry State Lottery requires you to select five different numbers from 0 through 50. (Order is not important.) You are a Big Winner if the five you select agree with those in the drawing, and you are a Small-Fry Winner if four of your five numbers agree with those in the drawing (Enter your answers as exact answers.) What is the probability of being a Big Winner? 1/2349060 What is the probability of being a Small-Fry Winner? _____ What is the probability that you are either a Big Winner or a Small-Fry Winner? _____

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total no of possible selctions = 51C5 = 2349060

Probabity of being a Big winner = 1/2349060

probabity of being a small-fry winner i.e selcting 4 from drawing = 5C4/2349060 = 5/2349060

Probabity that you are either big winner or samll-fry winner = (5+1)/2349060 = 6/2349060

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