a three in 31 chance of matching the fifth, then.

a four in 32 chance of matching the fourth, then.

a five in 33 chance of getting the third, then.

a six in 34 chance of getting the second, then.

a seven in 35 chance of matching the first ball drawn, then.

For the initial seven balls, ticket holders have: The probability calculator works like this. To win the jackpot, the Victorian man matched all seven main numbers plus the Powerball. Millions of Australians waited with bated breath for draw 1317 to be announced.ĭr Woodcock said there was a one in 134 million chance of a single ticket winning the Thursday $80 million jackpot. “It’s like putting icing on a very improbable cake,” Dr Stephen Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS, told when it came to winning the lottery. The Victorian man’s win certainly beat the odds, despite a warning from a leading mathematician. In previous $80 million Powerball draws, ticket sales have peaked just after 5pm on the day of the draw, with more than 4000 tickets selling each minute.

No-one picked the winning numbers last week, causing the $60 million prize money to jackpot to $80 million. “We’re going to set up our kids for life.Īn estimated one in four Aussies purchased a ticket for the draw. “I am certainly going to pay off the mortgage and the other bills we have to begin with,” he said. He said he was going to use the staggering amount of money to give his children a headstart for life. Those numbers were 17, 10, 4, 26, 19, 23, 21 and the Powerball was 7. The lucky man managed to get all the numbers right. RELATED: Mum still working years after $107 million win

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