
Introductory Statistics
1st Edition
ISBN: 9781938168208
Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 4, Problem 72H
You buy a lottery ticket to a lottery that costs $10 per ticket. There are only 100 tickets available to be sold In this lottery. In this lottery there are one S500 prize, two S100 prizes, and four $25 prizes. Find your expected gain or loss.
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