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The Powerball lottery is decided every Wednesday and Saturday night by drawing five white balls out of a drum with 69 balls and one red ball out of a drum with 26 red balls. The Powerball jackpot is won by matching all five white balls in any order and the red Powerball. Each ticket costs $2. A ticket is defined as a set of five white and 1 red number. a. [2 pts] How many possible different Powerball tickets can be purchased? b. [1 pts] How many possible different winning Powerball tickets are there?

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There are 11,238,513 ways Powerball tickets can be purchased.

There are 292, 201, 338 ways to win Powerball tickets.

Given

Number of white balls = 69

Number of white balls drawn = 5

Number of red balls = 26

Number of red balls drawn = 1

What is the combination?

The combination is the way to select the number of objects from a group.

The formula is used to select the number of the object is;

[tex]\rm = \ ^nC_r \\\\\rm = \dfrac{n!}{(n-r)!r!}[/tex]

Where n is the total number of objects and r is the number of selected objects.

1. How many possible different Powerball tickets can be purchased?

The number of ways Powerball tickets can be purchased is;

[tex]\rm = \ ^{69}C_5\\\\= \dfrac{69!}{(69-5)!. 5!}\\\\= \dfrac{69!}{64!.5!}\\\\= 11238513[/tex]

There are 11,238,513 ways Powerball tickets can be purchased.

2.  How many possible different winning Powerball tickets are there?

A number of ways to win Powerball tickets are there is;

[tex]\rm = \ ^{69}C_5 \times ^{26}C_1\\\\= \dfrac{69!}{(69-5)!. 5!} \times \dfrac{26!}{(26-1)!\times 1!}\\\\= \dfrac{69!}{64!.5!} \times \dfrac{26!}{25!.1!}\\\\= 11238513 \times 26\\\\= 292, 201, 338 ways[/tex]

There are 292, 201, 338 ways to win Powerball tickets.

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