Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 20, 2016
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A cow has a 1 in 17,400,000 chance of becoming an NFL football used in the Super Bowl! The Ghost a very rare white giraffe was recently discovered in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park! The first flour to ever bloom in space, and orange zinnia, blossomed aboard the International Space Station on January 16, 2016.
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Alexi … Um… You were going along ok, and then you made a wild turn I can’t follow, and veered off the track.
I don’t know whether you got the 11 million plus from Google out calculated it yourself, but…5 numbers from a pool of 69 … It’s been a LOT of years.. . but as I recall…
69 choices for the first, 68 for the second, etc..So you have 69*68*67*66*65 choices, but since the numbers don’t have to be in order, you can divide that enormous result by all the ways to order 5 numbers, which is 5! (5*4*3*2*1)… and yup!… 11,238,513
But that’s when you zoomed away.You’re not taking 6 numbers out of 95… If you did, then yes.you’d have 95*94*93*92*91*90/6!But you never had 95 numbers to choose from.You already know the odds for the first five, now you have 26 choices, not 95, for the next number.. Take your 11 million plus odds for the first five times the 26 you can choose from now, and you get 292 million and a bit more.
Cool. It worked. I never actually calculated it till now.I just trusted the lottery website when it said about 1 in 293 million… and rounded it to almost 300 million in my post.