Timeline for Probability of winning a number draw between 1 and 99
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| Oct 2, 2020 at 3:19 | vote | accept | user13232774 | ||
| Sep 29, 2020 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackStats/status/1310866925476601856 | ||
| Sep 29, 2020 at 4:46 | comment | added | user13232774 | @BruceET Yes, that assumption is correct | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 4:34 | answer | added | BruceET | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 4:18 | comment | added | BruceET |
Am I correct that 23 other guests had a chance to draw a number above 95? Then the probability of a higher number is $1 - {94 \choose 23}/{98 \choose 23} = 0.6635228.$ Or in R, where dhyper is a hypergeometric PDF, 1-dhyper(0, 4, 94, 23) returns $0.6635228.$
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| Sep 29, 2020 at 3:53 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 29, 2020 at 3:52 | comment | added | Dave | I guess you win by drawing the highest number? | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 3:48 | history | asked | user13232774 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |