Power Ball

   My Math professor stated a long time ago, that the chance for people to win the powerball, let alone the lottery, is close to 0 %. This is true. the chances are probably 1/178,145,688. This is quite impossible, but people get their hopes up. There's a quote in Spanish that says, " La suerte es loca, y a alguien le toca." Luck is crazy and someone eventually gets it. But,  that someone is probably not you. This is also true.

    My friends brother who works in Merry Linch basically collected 80 powerball tickets, since 80 people each played 5 dollars, so they had more than one set. My mother who works in Total Pack, and the manager did the same thing. He collected 5 tickets each from 18 people and e-mailed copies of it so as to know if they won or not. This was all useless. I played like 3, my brother 10 sets, and my dad 10 as well. Out of all of these numbers, which were probably close to more than 200, not even one had at least 3 numbers. The numbers were super small, and close to each other: something like 6, 22, 23, 29 and two others. This is even more impossible to win. I was surprised someone actually won the 500 million.

    Even if you win 500 million, or around 475 with taxes,it's still a lot of money. What exactly will you do with that? It's an insane amount. I would be nervous if I had gotten that much, so I would have probably left Florida, since the winners are required to confirm their address, and even have pictures taken. I would have changed my appearance, and left since anyone would kill for that amount.

   The chances of you dying from a coconut, from being eaten by a shark, are probably higher than the chances of you winning the lottery. But yet again, they could be saying this so you don't play and actually win. But, nonetheless, the chances are quite low. It's probably easier for you to work for a couple of millions, than to actually win them without blood, sweat, and tears.