Thanks. That was the first answer I came up with and it just didn;t feel right that 2.5% of the time it would take all 40 picks to get the specific item so I talked myself out of it. The other answer however seemed even more outlandish
Oh well, just goes to show what happens when you...
At one time I used to be decent math and basic statistics, but 40 years have diminished my reasoning power and it's driving me crazy that
I can't figure out why my answer makes no sense.
Basically the art of the unlucky.
A bag full of 40 different numbers picked one at a time and the drawn...