Probability and the Lottery in Layman's Term probability-and-the-lottery | Page 6

How you combine numbers is what makes the biggest factor in your winning chances. For example, a combination which consists of all even numbers can only occur once in 100 draws while a balanced odd and even combination can occur 33 times in 100 draws. If we want to know how these two combinations will occur in 1000 draws, we only need to multiply the number of draws by their corresponding probability. Numbers don't lie. A wrong combination leads to a waste of money. While the right choice of combination leads to a good shot at the lottery. Thanks to probability theory because we have the means to know which is which.