The California Lottery's Super Lotto Plus game involves picking five numbers between 1 and 47.There are 1,533,939 different ways that five numbers could be picked, and 571,341 different ways to pick at least one pair of consecutive numbers in this lottery game.What is the probability a person playing this game picks at least one pair of consecutive numbers?
A) 0.3725
B) 2.684564
C) 0.0213
D) 0.47

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The probability of picking at least one pair of consecutive numbers is calculated by dividing the number of ways to pick at least one pair of consecutive numbers (571,341) by the total number of ways to pick five numbers (1,533,939). This gives a probability of 0.3725.

The California Lottery's Super Lotto Plus Game Involves Picking Five