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Probability
Expected Value
Suppose you buy 1 ticket for $1 out of a lottery of 3,000 tickets. If the prize for the one winning ticket is to be $1,000, what are your expected winnings?
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Take the weighted winning:
(1*1000+2999*0)/3000
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