The Odds are Mighty Steep, But It Happened
The chances of 18 people winning last Saturday’s lottery jackpot of more than R21-million are highly improbable, according to mathematics and statistics experts.
For, as far as the statistics go, for 18 people to have selected the six winning numbers, a total of 252-million tickets would have to have been sold to fit with the odds.
Source: The Daily News (SA)