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If a raffle has a winning prize of $100 and each ticket costs $5 with a total of 500 tickets sold, which equation would calculate the expected value?

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User Oskar Berggren
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The expected value refers to the value for a person who decides to purchase one ticket.

And that value is the sum of the values of the different possible scenarios.

There are two scenarios, wining and lossing.

Note that we need to substract the cost of the ticket (i.e. $5) from the return.

Winning:

Probability 1 out of 500 chances

Return expected: ($100 - $5) *1/500 = $95 * 1/500 = $0.19

Lossing

Probability 499 out of 500 chances
Return expected: (0 - $5)*499/500 = -$4.99

The expected value is the sum of the two returns: $0.19 - $4.99 = -$4.80 (it is negative).
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