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For a fundraiser, 1000 raffle tickets are sold, and the winner is chosen at random. There is only one prize, $500 in cash. You buy one ticket. What is the probability you will win the prize of $500

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Answer:

1/1000 = 0.001

Explanation:

Out of the 1000 tickets only one will be chosen. And since you only bought one ticket you would get a 1/1000 chance to get chosen. If you turn 1/1000 into a decimal you get 0.001 or 0.1%. Say if you bought 2 tickets you would get a 2/1000 chance which would be a 0.2% chance and so on.

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