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3.9 Exercise 25

Avg difficulty 2.5

The probability of winning the Mega Millions lottery is published as 3.304693×10−93.304693 \times 10^{- 9}. The probability of being hit by lightning is approximated to be 2×10−62 \times 10^{- 6}. How many times more likely are you to be hit by lightning than win the Mega Millions?

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 3.9 Scientific Notation, exercise 25

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