The Florida Lottery is made up of the numbers 1-49. My mother has observed that the winning numbers many times are prime numbers.

Question

1.List the prime numbers from 1-49:

2.What is the probability of a prime number being picked randomly from the numbers 1-49?

3.Is the probability of picking a prime number greater than picking a number that is not prime?

Answer 1

1. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_all_the_prime_numbers_from_1-100

2. Count the number of prime numbers under 50 and divide by 49.

3. 1 - the above answer is the probability of picking a nonprime number.

I hope this helps.