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29 Nov 2021
Given information
You buy a lottery ticket costing $.
Total tickets were sold.
Prizes are:
,
and
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
Let X is a random variable which defines the expected profit.
If you buy a ticket there are few options that you can get 490 as expected profit because you won 500 and you paid 10, So, the difference is 490. Similarly there are other probable profits are 90 and 15 and if you do not won any prize that means you lose 10.
Formula used for expected profit and loss:
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