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Buying another lottery ticket doesn't double your chances, amirite?

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Yes it does. It's still quite small but it certainly is double.

Anonymous +13Reply

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Even if you bought all possible outcomes you would lose lots and lots of money.
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Anonymous +10Reply

What if you buy all the tickets your chances would be 100/100

@Legomanfr What if you buy all the tickets your chances would be 100/100

you know how the jackpot gets to be a million dollars? because people buy tickets, if you bought all the tickets youd at best only get back what you bought

Anonymousmouses avatar Anonymousmouse Yeah You Are -1Reply

Each ticket you buy is a 50 50 chance right? You're either gonna win or you're gonna lose...

If the chance of winning is 1/100 it does.

@Bunionsbill No then it'd be 2/101

No. If s ticket has a chance of 1/100 then the chance of wining with either is 1 - (99/100)*(99/100) which is aprox 2/100. Why did you add 1 more ticket number out of nowhere?

@Legomanfr No. If s ticket has a chance of 1/100 then the chance of wining with either is 1 - (99/100)*(99/100) which is aprox...

My guess is this is largely a misunderstanding down to different types of lottery. This would apply to the 'draw a name from a hat' approach. But not a 'pick a set of numbers' approach.

Anonymous +7Reply

We as science students are taught that when its 0.019 its ≈0.02 so ill take it as double.

The understanding is that:

You have a ticket with 1/100 of a chance to get a prize

If you buy another ticket the odds would go up by one

And that would make your original ticket worth 1/101

And make the other ticket be worth 1/101 as well

And if you add them together you get 2/101

Which isn't double of 1/100

Anonymous +8Reply
@The understanding is that: You have a ticket with 1/100 of a chance to get a prize If you buy another ticket the...

Didn't know it worked like this, where i live you choose a set of numbers and you win if they get drawn. Even so, 2/101 is very close to the double of 1/100

Depends on the lottery...

@Edgycorner Why not

if there where only 4 tickets and you bought two then your chances are doubled. (i think thats correct math,

Anonymousmouses avatar Anonymousmouse Yeah You Are -1Reply

The arguments here just prove why the lottery works so well as a tax. 😶

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