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Calculating Odds

busyliving · 2011-05-18 06:59:39

Hey all, Just wondering if anyone could do me a favour and work out some odds for? Basically i'm looking for the odds of 3 numbers coming up in the lotto, including the bonus number. Lets just say for arguments sake the numbers are 8, 16, 27 Cheers in advance

18-05-2011 07:59AM

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busyliving

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Hey all,

Just wondering if anyone could do me a favour and work out some odds for?

Basically i'm looking for the odds of 3 numbers coming up in the lotto, including the bonus number.

Lets just say for arguments sake the numbers are 8, 16, 27

Cheers in advance

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#2 19-05-2011 01:31AM

Browney7

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Think this should be what you want.

Total of 7 Numbers drawn. Total of 45 numbers to be drawn from.

(45*44*43)/(7*6*5) which results in a 1 in 405.429 chance. (3 With Bonus)
(45*44*43)/(6*5*4) which results in a 1 in 709.50 chance. (3 With no bonus)

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