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In a lottery a person choses six different natural numbers at random from 1 to 20, and if these six numbers match with the six numbers already fixed by the lottery committee he wins the prize. What is the probability of winning the prize in the game.


Total no. of ways in which six different natural numbers can be chosen out of 20 is 20C6.

No. of ways in which six numbers match with the six numbers already fixed to win the prize is 6C6.

P(winning the prizes) = = = =

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