For those still trying to get their minds around the probability of winning the Powerball jackpot, here’s another example.
Advertisement
Now, if there is a lucky victor after Wednesday night’s drawing, that person is looking at a jackpot of $1.5 billion.
If you choose the annuity payments, you’ll get about $50 million a year for 30 years.
The folks at USAMega.com crunched the numbers for each of the states that participate in Powerball, including Florida.
Millions are hoping to hit it big in Wednesday’s $1.5 billion Powerball lottery. The game is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C. and two USA territories. He’s not a regular lottery player, so he hasn’t put much though to what he’d use the money for, he said. Tell us by commenting below!
Some other states let you use apps to pay other people to buy tickets for you, but these apps haven’t been tested or verified.
“This is her first time buying a ticket and she thinks somehow because it’s her first time, she’s gonna win”.
Manager Suzanne King said the bakery did a similar promotion in 2002 when the Powerball jackpot was US$220 million. Hey, I was so sure my time had finally come I even went vehicle shopping to celebrate the occasion. The combined cash prizes of those winners is nearly $4.8 million. “I’ll cheese for them anyway they want”, says Wagner. 1 in 292,201,338. In contract the odds of winning -any- prize is 1 in 24.87.
“We’ve had people coming in who didn’t know tickets had gone from $1 to $2, and that change happened about three years ago”, said Arun Sharma, whose family has owned the store since 2002.
Advertisement
The bakery’s manager said she plans to drive Buffalo again tonight to purchase more tickets, since the promotion has been so successful.
