Know how to calculate the chances of winning the lottery, which includes the Florida Lottery? For each lottery game, you can calculate the odds of winning. Use a calculator on your personal computer or a small handheld calculator to quickly multiply the numbers.
The number of winning numbers drawn from ….. is what you “need”. Is it 59 or 56? 42, 49, 49, 39, or 39? It is important to determine how many balls you have in each group if there is a secondary drawing for the extra ball such as the Powerball red ball or Mega Millions’ gold ball. Are there 49 balls or 39?
It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Florida Lottery, Ohio Lottery, Texas Lottery, PA, or NJ Lottery. This strategy gives you the real odds. Florida Lottery is at 6/53. New York Lottery ranks 6/59. The 6/49 ratio of lottery numbers is used by the Ohio Lottery (Massachusetts Lottery), Wisconsin Lottery (Wisconsin Lottery) and the State of Washington Lottery. Illinois Lottery is rated at 6/52.
You can then begin formulating the formulas once you have all of this information and your calculator in your hand. To win the multimillion-dollar jackpot most of us dream about, you must match the winning drawn numbers with five regular balls.
In the first example, there are 56 balls within the first group and 46 in secondary group. You must match all the balls (5 + 1) to win the Jackpot. However, not in an order. Super Lotto Plus at California Lottery is 47/27. The first drawing begins with the big drum spinning. Your chance of matching your number to the first ball is 1:56
After the first number is drawn, one ball is removed. You now have a 1/5 chance of matching the numbers drawn to the second ball. A ball is taken off for each number drawn, which reduces the remaining number by one.
Your odds of matching the number on third ball are now 1/54 based on how many balls remain in the drum. The odds of you correctly matching the fourth number are reduced to 1/53 after the third ball has been removed from your drum 4d lottery.
As you can see, every time a ball is dropped from the drum, the odds of it being released are reduced by 1. It started out with a chance of 1/56. Then, with each new number it decreases to 1/55/1/54/1/53 and finally, with the fifth number you have the odds that 1/52 will match this fifth winning number. This is the first part in the formula for calculating your chances of winning the lottery.
Take these five odds to represent the winning numbers (1/56, 1/54, 1/53, 1/53 and 1/52). The fraction with the “1” at the top represents your only chance of correctly matching the drawn number.
You will now need to take your calculator with you and multiply all top numbers (1x1x1x1x1) equal one (1). Next multiply all bottom numbers (56x55x54x53x52). When all the numbers have been entered correctly and multiplied, the sum is 458,377.920. The new fraction is 1/458 377,920. There is 458 million chances to win. You would have a very slim chance of winning this Pick 5/56 Ball Lottery game if your numbers were picked in the same order as the drawing.
Unfortunately, you don’t have the obligation to pick the numbers in exactly the same order as they were drawn. This second step will decrease the odds of you matching these five winning numbers in the correct order. You will multiply the number drawn balls by five (1x2x3x4x5). You can see that 120 is the result of using the calculator.
These odds allow you to select your five matching numbers in any order. To do this, divide 120/417.451,320. This calculation is best done with a calculator. You have a chance of winning the lottery if you play 120/458 377 920. These odds of you winning this Pick 5-56 ball lottery game are greater than 3.5million to 1.
If you were to win the Multimillion Dollar Jackpot from the Mega Millions Lottery, then you would need to add the gold ball to each of the five winning drawn balls. You have a 1/6 chance of matching the single gold ball correctly. Since you are only drawing one number, this must be an exact match. There is only one chance that you will get it right. Now multiply 3,819 8,816 by 46.
Use your calculator to perform multiplication. Your odds of winning Mega Millions Jackpot are 175 million, 711 000, 5 hundred 36 three-six to 1. Now you are able to calculate your odds of winning Mega Millions Lottery.