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What is the probability of matching the five White Balls and not the Megaball®?

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Answer:

One chance in 12,607,306.25

Explanation:

The number of ways the 5 first numbers on your lottery ticket can match the 5 White numbers is COMBIN(5,5) = 1. The number of ways your final number can match any of the 24 losing Mega numbers is: COMBIN(24,1) = 24. (Pick any of the 24 losers.) Thus there are COMBIN(5,5) x COMBIN(24,1) = 24 possible combinations.

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