Question

Suppose there is one lottery with 100,000 tickets and one prize. I have bought one ticket. I know that the probability of each ticket winning is 1:100,000, that the probability of each ticket losing is 99,999:100,00, and that after the draw each ticket will have definitively won or lost.

Answer 1

The probability of winning the lottery with 100,000 tickets is 0.00001.

Step-by-step explanation:

The subject of this question is Mathematics and the grade level is High School.

When you buy one lottery ticket out of 100,000 tickets, the probability of winning is 1 out of 100,000, or 0.00001. The probability of losing is 1 - 0.00001, which is approximately 0.99999. After the draw, each ticket will definitively either win or lose.