Question

In the power ball lottery game, winning the jackpot requires that you select the correct five unique numbers between 1 and 58 inclusive (don't have to match the order) and, in a separate drawing, you must also select the correct single nber between 1 and 13 inclusive. Find the probability of winning the jackpot?

Answer 1

virtually zero.

since there is no replacement between draws,

1st # 1/58
2nd # 1/57
...
and so on

multiply them all together