If you're craving a cupcake in the middle of the night, unless you planned ahead and have some on your counter, your only choice might be those nasty ones at your local all-night grocery store. That is, until Sprinkles, one of the L.A.-based bakeries deemed responsible for kicking off the international cupcake craze, launches their 24-hour cupcake access.
From the company
"This automatic cupcake machine dispenses freshly baked cupcakes, cupcake mixes, apparel and even cupcakes for Fido! In the heart of Beverly Hills nestled between Sprinkles Cupcakes and the brand new Sprinkles Ice Cream, 24 Hour Sprinkles will be continuously restocked day and night with a variety of freshly baked cupcake flavors."
Mega-Millions Probability
You have heard what your chances of winning $ 640 million tonight are, so if you are curious how this is calculated here you go
“The numbers picked for the prizes consist of 5 numbers picked at random from a pool of 56 numbers (the White Numbers). Then a single number (the Mega Number) is picked from a second pool that has 46 numbers. If the results of these random number selections match one of the winning combinations on your lottery ticket, then you win something.
In any combinatorics problem where all possible outcomes are equally likely, the probability of a successful outcome is determined by finding the number of successful combinations, and then dividing by the total number of all combinations. There are nine possible configurations that will win something in the Mega Millions Lottery. For each of these, the probability of winning equals the number of winning combinations for that particular configuration divided by the total number of ways the Mega Millions numbers can be picked.
Mega Millions Total Combinations
Since the total number of combinations for Mega Millions numbers is used in all the calculations, we will calculate it first. The number of ways 5 numbers can be randomly selected from a field of 56 is: COMBIN(56,5) = 3,819,816. (See themath notation page or Help in Microsoft's Excel for more information on “COMBIN”).
For each of these 3,819,816 combinations there are COMBIN(46,1) = 46 different ways to pick the sixth number (the “Mega” number). The total number of ways to pick the 6 numbers is the product of these. Thus, the total number of equally likely Mega Millions combinations is 3,819,816 x 46 = 175,711,536.”
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