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A school is holding a Fixed Raffle, where only a certain number of raffle tickets can be sold.  The school sold 970 of these tickets for $10 each.  One of the tickets will win $2910, two tickets will win $970, and 5 tickets will win $485.  
What is the expected value of each of these tickets for the people that purchase one ticket? 
8 years ago

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Reiny
Are the tickets put back into the draw after they were picked?
Set it up like I showed you in your previous problem.
8 years ago

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