Homework Help: probability

Posted by jason on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:48pm.

Five numbers are to be picked, without repetition, from 44
numbers to determine the winner of the Fortune Five
game in the state lottery. If the order of the numbers is
insignificant, how many different ways can a winning
quintuple be selected? What is the probability of winning?

probability - Reiny, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:51pm
There will be C(44,5) ways to choose 5 numbers from 44 or 44!/(5!39!) or
1086008 ways

so the prob of winning is 1/1086008

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