Texas is starting a lottery game. Play-ers use a machine that randomly selects 7distinct numbers from among the first 28 pos-itive integers and prints them on a ticket.The lottery randomly selects 7 distinct num-bers from the same 28 positive integers. Awinning ticket exactly matches the same setof 7 numbers that the lottery selected. Or-der is not important. Tickets cost one dollar.Each winning ticket receives a prize amountof 350, 000. No other prizes are given by thislottery. Calculate the probability that Texaswill lose money, given that 450, 000 tickets arepurchased.

To calculate the probability that Texas will lose money, we need to determine the expected value of…

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A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Author:Sheldon Ross

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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