Mega Millions pot grows to one of largest ever “mega Millions” News
Mega Millions pot grows to one of largest ever
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Mega Millions pot grows to one of largest ever
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Question by Boneeva: If the Mega Millions “mega balls” numbers range from 1-46 why are the odds to match it listed at 1:75?
If you bought 46 tickets all with a different mega ball for each one, you would surely win 1 of those wouldn’t you? Doesn’t that equate to 1:46 odds?!
Best answer:
Answer by Melkam Dirset
Excellent question!
I was asking the same question when writing the script for the odds calculator of my web site
http://us-lotteries.com/info/OddsCalculator.asp
I presume the reason is : if you have all the 175M combinations, say, each written on a piece of paper, and if you are asked to pick one of them, then the odds that your number could match 0-of-5 + Ball is 1 in 75.
In other words, 1.33% of all the possible combinations match only the Mega Ball of the winning number.
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