Lottery Analysis

	A	B	C	D	E	G
1		Lump-sum Prize	After Tax	Ways of Winning	Probability	r*S(p,N)
2	Jackpot	$476,000,000	$357,000,000	1	0.00000000569114597
3	Other fixed prizes	$250,000	$187,500	45	0.0000002561015687	0.0006250000
4		$10,000	$7,500	255	0.000001451242222	0.0000250000
5		$150	$150	11475	0.00006530590001	0.0000005000
6		$150	$150	12750	0.00007256211112	0.0000005000
7		$10	$10	208250	0.001185181148	0.0000000333
8		$7	$7	573750	0.003265295	0.0000000233
9		$3	$3	1249500	0.00711108689	0.0000000100
10		$2	$2	2349060	0.01336884335	0.0000000067
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12	Tax Rate	25%
13	Ticket Sales	300,000,000
14	Possible combos	175,711,536
15	f-cost	0.9749300183
16	Break-even JP	171,306,451
17	s(1/t, N)	0.000000002728843846
18	sum(r*s(p,N))	0.0006510733333
19	Expected Return	-0.01%
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22	Instructions:
23	Download this sheet so you can change it.
24	Enter the Jackpot and expected Ticket Sales. See Expected Return.
25	As a fun and exciting exercise, put in last week: $363M, 190M tickets
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