Numbers Fun Part 2
If one treats a white ball sum of 140 as the mid-point of both possible and actually drawn sums it permits a comparison in how the sums reside below and above that mid-point. For the period under discussion one will find that 52 of the winning sums were below the mid-point and 51 were at or above the mid-point. A fairly even distribution by anyone’s standards.
Does this mean that if one selects values for the white balls in the Powerball lottery so that their sums fall near the center of the ‘winning window’ they will win the jackpot? Of course not, there is far more involved than sums and decades in predicting winning lottery numbers. However tracking the sums and decades of the five white balls drawn at each Powerball drawing can prove both interesting and informative. It might even prove beneficial.
In Part 3 of this series we will expand upon the above and get into some rudimentary analysis based on the old saying “The trend is your friend”.
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