In a raffle with 100 tickets, 5 people buy 20 tickets each. If There are 3 winning tickets drawn at random find the probability that: a) one person gets all 3 winning tickets; b) there are 3 different winners; c) some person gets two winners and someone else gets just one.
a) The probability that one person gets all the winning tickets
b) There are lots of ways to solve this; here’s one. There are ways to choose which 3 people win— let’s name them A, B, C. The probability that A gets one winning ticket and 19 losing tickets is .
IF this happens, then the probability that B also gets one winning ticket and 19 losing tickets is ,
because there are 2remaining winning tickets and 78 remaining losers. If both these happen, then the chance that C also gets one winning ticket and 19 losing tickets is , because 1 winning and 59 losing tickets remain;
thus the answer is
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