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From: rcj1@ihuxi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: You call this randomness!!!!!
Message-ID: <452@ihuxi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 10:18:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxi.452
Posted: Mon Jun 20 10:18:23 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jun-83 14:15:19 EDT
Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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The Illinois State lottery started in Feb. of this year.
Usually there is 1 and sometimes 2 winners for the Grand Prize(=>$1M).
Incredibly enough, there were 78 winners of the grand prize this week. This
means 78 people picked 6 out of 40 numbers correctly!!!
Why do you think this happened? And what are the odds???
I dont know the odds but I can tell you why.

The winning numbers were:(believe it or not) 7-13-14-21-28-35 (alt=37)!!!

Now you know why 78 people hit it. By the way these people had to
split the grand prize and settle for $9,544.00

7,063 people picked 5 of 6 (with or without the alternate number) and
recieved $2,300.00

11,399 picked 4 of 6 to pick up $22.00

I'm not sure I should be sending this kind of information to the net
so please inform me if I'm doing something illegal...
I just thought that the result of this weeks drawing is very interesting.



				Ray,
				ihuxi!rcj1