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40. California Lottery Mega Numbers. The histogram in Figure 6.9 shows the distribution of “Mega” numbers (possible values
a. Assuming the lottery drawings are random, what would you expect the probability of any Mega number to be?
b. Based on the histogram, what Mega number occurred most often and what was its relative frequency?
c. What would the histogram in Figure 6.9 look like if it represented billions of Mega numbers instead of 1639?
Figure 6.9
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