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Lotto scratches a
College statistics
students find
mathematical error
in advertisements.
Sun Studies
Amy Dunlap, The Battalion
Will Jenkins, a junior marketing major, reads at Research Park Monday afternoon, when temperatures were
unseasonably warm.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — TheTexas
Lottery has pulled printed ads for its
Cash 5 game from stores after a col
lege statistics class sent a letter claim
ing that possible winnings in the
game were being exaggerated.
The class at San Antonio College,
which was using Cash 5 data to
practice statistical analysis, deter
mined that someone who matches
all five numbers in the game could
win $57,575.70.
In-store ads for the game, how
ever, state that five-of-five winners
can win $75,000.
Lottery Commission spokesper
son Steve Levine said Cash 5 televi
sion ads will not be changed, and
the decision to remove the printed
ads is not an admission of error.
“The students just came up with
a different way of finding their fig
ures than we did; we’re not saying
their way is right,” Levine said.
“We decided to pull the ads be
cause that’s the first thing we do
when we get a legitimate and rea
sonable complaint about our ad
vertising ... and we alre;
thinking about renewingc
Gerald Busald, who teat!
16-member, sophomore
tistics class, said student
their numbers before
their complaint.
“We kept doing thema
our numbers didn’t change
sent the Lottery Commissi)
ter and our statistical
Busald said.
“The $75,000 figure seem
an estimate of the averageo
tal winnings from thefirst 15
ings, which averages i
$76,943.79.”
In their letter, thestudf
gued that the lottery’s fij
"analogous to saying thatia
town of 100 peoplewhereo
son earns $101,000 annua,
the other 99 earn $1,000 eat
the average income isSSl.Oi
In Cash 5, players try topi
numbers out of 39. The odd
ting all five are one in 575,"
Busald argues that, since
cent of the money bet on
awardeci to people who have
numbers, the expecteddistri:
works out to $57,575.70.
“It’s not rocket science,
said. “Students figureditoii
calculators.”
This day in history
Weather
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 18, the 49th day of 1997.
There are 316 days left in the year.
In 1516, Mary Tudor, the Queen of England popularly
known as “Bloody Mary,” was born in Greenwich Palace.
In 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president
of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala.
In 1885, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
was published in the United States for the first time.
In 1930, the ninth planet of our solar system, Plu
to, was discovered.
In 1953, Bwana Devil, the movie that heralded the
3-D fad of the ’50’s, opened in New York.
In 1960, the eighth Winter Olympic Games were for
mally opened in Squaw Valley, Calif., by Vice President
Richard Nixon.
In 1970, the Chicago Seven defendants were found
innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 De
mocratic National Convention.
In 1972, the California Supreme Court struck down
the state’s death penalty.
In 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop
a Boeing 747, went on its maiden “flight” above the
Mojave Desert in southeast California.
In 1988, Anthony M. Kennedy was sworn in as the
104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tonight
Today's birthdays
Actor Jack Balance is 76. Cosmopolitan editor He
len Gurley Brown is 75. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., is 70.
Singer Yoko Ono is 64. Singer Irma Thomas is 56.
Singer Dennis DeYoung (Styx) is 50. Actress Cybill
Shepherd is 47. Singer Juice Newton is 45. Actor John
Travolta is 43. Game show hostess Vanna White is 40.
Actor Matt Dillon is 33. Rapper Dr. Dre is 32. Actress
Molly Ringwald is 29.
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Exhibit Hall of Rudder Tower
9:30 am - 4 pm
MSC Visual Arts and MSC Literary Arts present
Layers of African-
American History
The Works of Leamon Green
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Tuesday, February 1 8
5 to 7 pm
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5 pm. Discussion with painter Leamon Green
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The Women In Science and
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of women graduate students, staff
and faculty will host its fifth annual
all-day professional and career
development conference.
The conference "Adapting to a Changing World" which will take
place on Saturday, February 22, 1997, at the MSC on the Texas A&M
campus, will focus on giving participants the skills and insights need
ed to succeed in the scientific and technological workplace of the
year 2000 and beyond.
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A Room of Your Own: At the Top,
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