Odds of picking 3 letters from 26

C.R.A.Z.Y said:
No one else seem to be bothered to do it and considering his actual question was:

and it appears he wants to know his chance of winning something so considering his asking the question in the first place perhaps Maths isn't his greatest subject and the actual odds would be more helpful!
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Working always get you more points in an exam, it's because it shows understanding. If he doesn't know how to do it then now he does...an simple answer alone won't teach him anything. It should be abundantly clear why the odds is that by the fractions.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Working always get you more points in an exam, it's because it shows understanding. If he doesn't know how to do it then now he does...an simple answer alone won't teach him anything. It should be abundantly clear why the odds is that by the fractions.
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This is all fair and true but do you honestly think that someone who had to ask the question in the first place is then going to understand how to do the calculation and then either understand the decimal odds or convert it into a much easier to understand fraction ??

I was just making life easier but I agree for education purposes the workings should always be shown


Obviously things are not clear for him as even after being given the workings he seemed to think he had a 1 in 24 fractional odd which is wayyyyyyyyyyy off mark:p
 
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My maths ain't good enough to work this out. I wasn't in a very high set for it back in the school days. :(
 
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Only 10p a ticket too with the potential to win £200ish (depending how many folk enter that week).

You can pick 4, 5 & 6 letters also but the price jumps up, think it's £2 if you pick 6 letters. Must be better odds!
 
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