About Mega Millions » Mathematics http://about-mega-millions.com Find the anwers, about your Mega Millions questions. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:17:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Is this a guaranteed lottery formula? http://about-mega-millions.com/is-this-a-guaranteed-lottery-formula http://about-mega-millions.com/is-this-a-guaranteed-lottery-formula#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:27:40 +0000 admin http://about-mega-millions.com/is-this-a-guaranteed-lottery-formula
alleycat asked:


I was just reading an article on Yahoo about a couple who believe they have come up with a formula for winning the lottery. Someone in the article said that there is no formula for winning the lottery unless you buy every ticket. Would it be possible to buy a ticket for every possible number combination and still come out ahead?

For example, the big lottery here in California is Mega Millions. Let’s say that the jackpot is at $300 million. There are close to 176 million possible number combinations that can be played. You spend $176 million on tickets, take about 30% taxes out of the winnings ($90 million), subtract your initial cost of $176 million, you are still left with $34 million. (The problem would be coming up with that much money initially and filling out 176 million different tickets!)
Chuck, that is a great point! If another person also won, you will be out alot of money.

Marcus

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Giggle Bear asked:


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Melissa
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southernrock2you2002 asked:


i like to know where i can find out how to play the most logic lottery numbers or if there is a free lottery site i can go to

Ron
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AmandaL asked:


I am not sure how to figure this out, and I was just wondering… I know there are 5 digits from 1-60, and the Mega ball which the 6th digit and I think goes from 1-50.

How many possible combinations does that work out to? Just curious.

Julie

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