Contemporary Engineering Economics 6th Edition by Chan Park

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In Virginia's six-number lottery (or lotto) players pick six numbers from 1 to 44. The winning combination is determined by a machine that looks like a popcorn machine, except that it is filled with numbered table-tennis balls. The Virginia lottery drawing offered the prizes shown in Table, assuming that the first prize is not shared with a ticket price of $1.
Common among regular lottery players is this dream: waiting until the jackpot reaches an astronomical sum and then buying every possible number, thereby guaranteeing a winner. Sure, it would cost millions of dollars, but the payoff would be much greater. Is it worth trying How do the odds of winning the first prize change as you increase the number of tickets purchased
TABLE ST 12.1 Virginia Lottery Prizes