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Explain what is wrong and why it is wrong.?
You bought 10 lottery tickets. One of them won a prize. That means that the probability of winning a prize is
1/10.
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade ago
There were most likely more than 10 lottery tickets sold.
You have to look at the whole number of tickets, not just the ones you bought.
That would be like someone who bought there first lottery ticket and won the lottery saying that you have a 100% chance of winning.
- Junior OLv 61 decade ago
Very simple. It is because you have not considered the total sample space. You bought 10 tickets but that is not the total number of tickets bought.
So if you and other people together bought 100000 tickets and only 1 was won, then you can say probability is 1/100000.
So you have to broaden your horizon to include all tickets that were bought for the lottery, not just yours.
- 1 decade ago
false. Each ticket has its own probability (likely in the millions of being a winner). You have increased your odds of winning but not by much by buying 10 tix compared to 1.
