Question

A COMPACT DISK PLAYER IS BEING RAFFLED OFF AND 150 TICKETS ARE SOLD. IF JOYCE BOUGHT A TICKET, WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF HER WINNING THE COMPACT DISC PLAYER>?

Answer 1

There are 150 tickets in total, and Joyce bought just one ticket. To obtain the odds of her winning, we need to do the counts below:

`P(Joyce-winning)=(1)/(150)=6.67*10^(-3)`

Then we have that Joyce would have an opportunity of 6.67x10^-3.

We have that it would be the probability of Joyce winning the compact disk, however, this probability can be written as the chance of Joyce winning (the ticket that she bought), vs, the chance of Joyce losing (the total of tickets minus the total of them). Then we can write the answer as:

1:149

So, the correct answer is 1:149.