Two friends, Bob and Ben, each buy one lottery ticket. Each ticket contains six numbers from a total of one hundred numbers (0-99). Bob chooses the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Ben chooses the numbers 39, 45, 66, 72, 74, 89. Who has a higher probability of winning

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Alison Sherman

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31 October, 07:06

Two friends, Bob and Ben, each buy one lottery ticket. Each ticket contains six numbers from a total of one hundred numbers (0-99). Bob chooses the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Ben chooses the numbers 39, 45, 66, 72, 74, 89. Who has a higher probability of winning

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Isabell Benjamin · Answer 1

Niether. They both have a 6/100 or 6% chance for one of their numbers to be picked. Just because they are close together in the somewhat arbitrary number ordering we use doesn't matter (assuming the choice of number is completely random).