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Johnny wants to buy a lottery ticket, so he decides on the ones that give him a 1 in 3 chance of winning! If Johnny buys 15 lottery tickets, how many times would you expect him to win?

User Shlag Stag
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Answer:

5 or less chances.

Explanation:

well because if he buys 15, 1 in 3 chance tickets, the highest amount of times he would win would be 5 because 15 is the chances of winning multiplied by the tickets he could win.

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