{"id":312,"date":"2007-12-27T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=312"},"modified":"2007-12-27T16:28:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T21:28:31","slug":"i-have-a-192-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2007\/12\/27\/i-have-a-192-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a 1:92 chance…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…of winning $100 in the NC Lottery Merry Millionaire raffle set to occur in a few moments at 5PM EST. This is because I bought two of the $20 tickets intending on giving one as a Christmas gift but I didn’t. So, based up on the number of tickets sold = 368,000 divided by 2000 (the number of $100 winning tickets that will be drawn) my chances are 1:92.<\/p>\n

So thinking of this another way that’s 92:1 chance that I wasted $40. That’s the way I’ll think about it for the next 34 minutes to avoid the disappointment of not beating the odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…of winning $100 in the NC Lottery Merry Millionaire raffle set to occur in a few moments at 5PM EST. This is because I bought two of the $20 tickets intending on giving one as a Christmas gift but I didn’t. So, based up on the number of tickets sold = 368,000 divided by 2000 … Continue reading I have a 1:92 chance…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-money"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t