Question

There are 500 tickets in a lottery out of which 10 are prize winning tickets.a person buys one ticket.find the probability that he gets a prize winning tickets

Answer 1

Total outcomes are 500

Possible outcome are 10

P ( E ) = no.of possible outcome / Total no. of outcome

P ( E ) = 10 / 500

P ( E ) = 1/50

Answer 2

Since total outcomes are 500
and possible outcome are 10

P ( E ) = 10/500

P ( E ) = 1/50