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Subject: How to win the lottery (sort of)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:01:02 -0700
From: "Lubna Chunawala"

In a lottery that, at random, picks 6 numbers between 1 and 50, what's the probability you get exactly 3 correct?

 

 

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