The Even and Odds of Power Ball

 What are the odds of getting even in the Power Ball lottery? Not too good is your answer. Lets make the first assumption in Power Ball and that is we are dealing with a 5 number game because the 6^th number the “Power Ball” is independent of the other numbers. That means over time the Powerball is just as likely to be high or low or even or odd.  For example out of 566 drawings the power ball has been even 278 times or 49% of the time. 

In the 5 numbers that are drawn from the same pool  there is a 31.45% chance that 2 of the numbers will be even, and a 32.51% chance the 3 of the numbers will be even that is a 63.96% chance that during the next Powerball drawing that there will be either 2 or 3 even numbers only .  the numbers start to fall from there  as you can see the rest of the chart the following break down .

		Number of Times	out of	%
Even	0	16	566	2.83%
Even	1	90	566	15.90%
Even	2	178	566	31.45%
Even	3	184	566	32.51%	63.96%
Even	4	75	566	13.25%
Even	5	21	566	3.71%

So if you want to increase your chances of winning the Power Ball Lottery make sure to only have 2 or 3 even numbers.

Remember the balls don’t Lie.