Tickets for a raffle cost $8. There were 819 tickets sold. One ticket will be randomly selected as the winner, and that person wins $$1400 and also the person is given back the cost of the ticket. For someone who buys a ticket, what is the Expected Value (the mean of th

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Tickets for a raffle cost $8. There were 819 tickets sold. One ticket will be randomly selected as the winner, and that person wins $$1400 and also the person is given back the cost of the ticket. For someone who buys a ticket, what is the Expected Value (the mean of the distribution)?

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