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Lottery - Introduction and History  


Course Topic(s): Probability | Games of Chance

This Wikipedia article focuses on the history of lotteries including in B.C.E. Little to no mathematics is included. Students could be directed to this site prior to a class on some of the mathematics of lotteries.

Resource URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery


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Subject classification(s): Statistics and Probability | Probability | Elementary Probability

Creator(s): Wikipedia Contributors

Contributor(s): Wikipedia Contributors

This resource was cataloged by Carolyn Cuff

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Wikipedia

Resource copyright: Creative Commons

This review was published on September 25, 2012

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