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have to share the jackpot with other winners. You also are about 6 times more likely to win the Jackpot in the Daily Millions lottery than in the Powerball lottery. However, the fact that no one has won the jackpot yet has hurt the sales. The Daily Millions has slumped from $3.75 million in the first week of the lottery to $1.23 million in the week ending Feb. 1. Despite not having to pay out any jackpots, the participating states are required to set aside 11 percent of the ticket sales to be put in a pool for future winners. Charles Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, said the money piling up in the jackpot pool will come in handy if players beat the odds in a different way, winning more than expected. P.S. On Saturday February 8, the Daily Millions lottery had its first winner. USING LOTTERY STORIES TO DISCUSS COINCIDENCES James Hanley* has discussed how stories about lottery winners provide good examples to discuss the meaning of apparent coincidences. Here is his first example: From the Montreal Gazette on September 10, 1981 Same Number 2-state Winner Boston (UPI) -- Lottery officials say that there is 1 chance in 100 million that the same four-digit lottery numbers would be drawn in Massachusetts and New Hampshire on the same night. That's just what happened Tuesday. The number 8092 came up, paying #5,482 in Massachusetts and $4,500 in New Hampshire. "There is a 1-in-10,000 chance of any four digit number being drawn at any given time," Massachusetts Lottery Commission official David Ellis said. "But the odds of it happening with two states at any one time are just fantastic," he said. * Hanley, James A. "Jumping to Coincidences, "The American Statistician, Vol 46, No. 3, pp 197-201. 24PDF Image | USING LOTTERIES IN TEACHING A CHANCE COURSE
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