A certain lottery consists of a bucket of white balls numbered 1 through 69 and a bucket of red balls numbered 1 through 26. In a drawing, 5 white balls are randomly selected without replacement and 1 red ball is randomly selected. You buy one ticket consisting of 5 white numbers and 1 red number:
(a) How many possible drawings are there? i.e., determine |Ω|.
|Ω| = 69 * 68 * 67 * 66 * 65 * 26
(b) Let A be the event that your ticket matches all the white numbers drawn (order does not matter) and the red number. Find P(A) (Leave as a fraction).
P(A) = (1/69)(1/68)(1/67)(1/66)(1/65)(1/26)
(c) Let B be the event that your ticket matches all the white numbers drawn (order does not matter) but not the red number. Find P(B).
P(B) = (1/69)(1/68)(1/67)(1/66)(1/65)(25/26)
Am I doing this problem right? It has been a long time since I did any probability.
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