What is the probability of getting the jackpot on Mega Million Lottery and Super Lotto Plus?

Question

I'm interested in the method one uses in finding the probability of hitting the jackpot for these two california lotteries. Help? (Can you show how to do it too? I already know the answers they're online =]) 1/175,711,536 for mega and 1/41,416,353 for super lottery =]

Answer 1

Are you asking the odds of winning both lotteries?  If so you'd have to specify during which time frame.  Are you talking about in the same draw?  During a life time?  Given one draw for each?  There's a lot of variables.

But it's pretty much pointless to calculate.  The odds of winning just one of them is pretty slim (that being a massive understatement).  The odds of winning two, even over a ten year period are minuscule.  It's such an unlikely possibility, it's hardly worth doing the math to find out just how unlikely.

Answer 2

I dont know the math equation but i had some one put it to me like this.

Imagine taking lotto tickets and stacking them one on top of another.. Imagine getting enough tickets to measure up to the height of the empire state building.

then imagine a big wind blowing the tickets every where and the person picking the lotto reaches into the air and grabs ONE ticket..

The chances of you winning are the chances of that person grabbing your ticket.