You buy one lottery ticket in each of 1700 lotteries. Your chance of winning a prize in each lottery is 0.011. What is the (approximate) probability that you will win a prize exactly 21 times?
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011, so the probability of losing in one ticket is 1 - 0.011 = 0.989. Show more…
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