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07-20-2018 , 12:35 AM
I recently played a Bingo game called the Do It.... You get 8 different numbers and you need to match them all within 20 called numbers. I was trying to figure out what the odds of hitting this jackpot... What about getting bingo in 15 called numbers? There are 75 bingo balls.
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07-20-2018 , 03:36 AM
number of called numbers can go anywhere from 8 to 75. this is the expression http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i...++),+n%3D8..75

see that sum is 1 so it must be correct.

if you want the probability of getting it called within first 15 numbers, that is the sum from above link from 8 to 15. that would be a probability of 0.00003814%, so it is very unlikely.

for the first 20 it's still very small, 0.0007467%

you need to increase it all the way to 60 to get 15.17%, which I have to admit is an somewhat unexpected result. but it should be correct since it did sum to 1 for n in interval [8,75].

see the partial sums chart to see how the probability grows.
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07-23-2018 , 03:04 PM
Thank you for the answer
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