Lottery tickets
Two tickets were sold as the winning lottery number for the record breaking $390 million in NJ and Georgia.
The winning numbers: 16-22-29-39-42, with the Mega Ball 20.
It was just been announced that the winner in Georgia WAS a truck driver.
The odds of winning that lottery was:
1 in 176,000,000
OK, now just for fun here is the list of other things that you might have a bigger chance to get than the lottery:
Chance of dying from SARS in the U.S:
1 in 100,000,000
Chance of contracting the human version of mad cow disease:
1 in 40,000,000
Chance of dying from a mountain lion attack in California:
1 in 32,000,000
Chance of dying from ignition or melting of nightwear:
1 in 30,589,556
Odds of becoming a saint:
20,000,000 to 1
Odds of becoming president:
10,000,000 to 1
Odds of spotting a UFO today:
3,000,000 to 1
Odds of being killed by lightning:
2,320,000 to 1
Odds of drowning in a bathtub:
685,000 to 1
Odds of getting a royal flush in poker on first five cards dealt: 649,740 to 1
Odds of dating a supermodel:
88,000 to 1
Odds of being considered possessed by Satan:
7,000 to 1
My question who did this calculating?
The winning numbers: 16-22-29-39-42, with the Mega Ball 20.
It was just been announced that the winner in Georgia WAS a truck driver.
The odds of winning that lottery was:
1 in 176,000,000
OK, now just for fun here is the list of other things that you might have a bigger chance to get than the lottery:
Chance of dying from SARS in the U.S:
1 in 100,000,000
Chance of contracting the human version of mad cow disease:
1 in 40,000,000
Chance of dying from a mountain lion attack in California:
1 in 32,000,000
Chance of dying from ignition or melting of nightwear:
1 in 30,589,556
Odds of becoming a saint:
20,000,000 to 1
Odds of becoming president:
10,000,000 to 1
Odds of spotting a UFO today:
3,000,000 to 1
Odds of being killed by lightning:
2,320,000 to 1
Odds of drowning in a bathtub:
685,000 to 1
Odds of getting a royal flush in poker on first five cards dealt: 649,740 to 1
Odds of dating a supermodel:
88,000 to 1
Odds of being considered possessed by Satan:
7,000 to 1
My question who did this calculating?
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