Consider the following raffle. Tickets are sold for $5 each and 1000 tickets will be sold. There is one grand prize of $1000. There are two $500 second prizes. a.Complete the PDF table. List the ? values, where ? is the profit. Round your answers to four decimal places where possible. ? ?(?) b. Suppose you bought a ticket. Find the expected value for your profit. Round your answer to the nearest cent. c. Based on the expected value, should you play the game. Explain your answer.

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Consider the following raffle. Tickets are sold for $5 each and 1000 tickets
will be sold. There is one grand prize of $1000. There are two $500
second prizes.
a.Complete the PDF table. List the ? values, where ? is the
profit. Round your answers to four decimal places where possible.
? ?(?)

 


b. Suppose you bought a ticket. Find the expected value for
your profit. Round your answer to the nearest cent.
c. Based on the expected value, should you play the game.
Explain your answer.

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