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Illinois Lotto Exercises 49 and 50 refer to the Illinois Lottery Lotto game. (The data for these exercises were taken from Allan J. Gottlieb’s “Puzzle Corner” in Technology Review, February/March 1985.) In this game, the player chooses six different integers from 1 to 40. If the six match (in any order) the six different integers drawn by the lottery, the player wins the grand prize jackpot, which starts at $1 million and grows weekly until won. Multiple winners split the pot equally. For each $1 bet, the player must pick two (presumably different) sets of six integers.
In the game week ending June 18, 1983, a total of 2 million people bought $1 tickets, and 78 people matched all six winning integers and split the jackpot. If all numbers were selected randomly, the likelihood of having so many joint winners would be about
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