If I buy two lotto tickets instead of one, am I doubling my chances
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If I buy two lotto tickets instead of one, am I doubling my chances

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 11-05-02] [Hit: ]
Hi Miss Elegance. I always thought two in twenty millionwas double one in twenty million.-Yes.-what kind of lotto?......
No.
Imagine trying to find a red bottle cap in a pile of 20 million blue bottle caps.
To double your chances of success you would need to eliminate 10 million blue bottle caps, not have two red ones to search for instead of one.
Your odds have gone from one in twenty million to two in twenty million.

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Yes, but it's still a huge waste of money, since you're spending double also. If you bought every lottery ticket for, say, $1,000,000, you would win, but probably only about $500,000.

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Of course you are.


But you are still probably wasting double your money as well !!


QED

Hi Miss Elegance. I always thought two in twenty million was double one in twenty million .

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Yes.

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what kind of lotto?

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ya
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