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Pay close attention if you have purchased a Mega Millions ticket from Michigan.
According to the Mega Millions website, the $1 billion jackpot-winning Mega Millions ticket, the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history, was sold in Michigan. The winning numbers for Friday were 4, 26, 42, 50, 60, and Mega Ball 24.
Since Sept. 15, when the winning ticket was sold in Wisconsin, the Mega Millions top prize has been growing.
On Wednesday, the fifth-largest lottery jackpot in the history of the country was claimed. In Maryland, the $731.1 million Powerball jackpot was won, with a cash-only payout worth $546 million for that massive prize.
10, 19, 26, 28, 50, and Mega Ball 16 were the winning numbers in Tuesday’s $865 million Mega Millions drawing. The lump sum for cash-only was $638.8 million. According to the Mega Millions website, eleven tickets matched five numbers, including a pair of $2 million winners in Florida.
The chance of someone winning the Mega Millions is 1 out of 302,575,350.
In different news reports, statisticians tried to encapsulate the long chances of winning the coveted jackpot on Friday. The American Statistical Association’s executive director, Ronald L. Wasserstein, told USA TODAY, “Humans are not naturally equipped to understand such big numbers.”
Steven Bleiler, a professor of mathematics and statistics at Portland State University, told the Associated Press that people should imagine a 40-foot wide, 120-foot long, 5-foot deep swimming pool filled with M&Ms, only one of which is green. All a player needs to do to win is to jump blindfolded and wade around until the single green M&M is found.
Or maybe try the example of Wasserstein: stand on the corner of a football field and begin to layout dollar bills until 302,575,350 of them have been placed: that’ll take up about 585 football fields, he said.
