# Math Help - Lotto ticket problem

1. ## Lotto ticket problem

Suppose you go down to the corner store to buy some lottery tickets.

Assumptions:

- Each ticket really consists of 8 chances for you to win money (that is each ticket really consists of you buying 8 bets). You have the possibility to win all 8 bets, but you also have the possibility to lose each time as well.

-Your allowed to purchase an infinite number of tickets, however you can only purchase one ticket at a time and each time you purchase another ticket, the probability of you winning decreases for that ticket.

- The first ticket you purchase is labelled $1000$, your second ticket is labelled $1001$, and similarly the $nth$ ticket that you purchase will be labelled $1000 + n$

- The probability of you winning any one of the 8 individual bets on your ticket is equal to $\frac{1}{ \sqrt {\frac {1}{2}}{(1000+n)}}}$ ...............(note: the sqrt is suppose to cover ${\frac {1}{2}}{(1000+n)}$ and not just the $\frac{1}{2}$

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Calculate the probability that someone will eventually purchase a ticket where all 8 bets on THAT ticket win? If the probability is $100%$, what is the expected number of tickets which must be purchased for this event to occur?