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To: Tenacious 1

It would cost a lot more than that. There are 59 white balls and 35 red balls. In total there are 21,026,821,200 possible outcomes (59*58*57*56*55*35). So the cost to cover all the possible draws is over $42 billion.


55 posted on 02/11/2015 3:21:14 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Since the order in which the first 5 balls shows up does not matter.

You divide that number by 5*4*3*2*1=120

So 21,026,821,200/120=175,223,510


72 posted on 02/11/2015 3:32:34 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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