A mere two days after America’s seventh billion-dollar jackpot was received within the Powerball drawing, Mega Millions gamers competed Friday for the paltry sum of $720 million.
The profitable numbers have been 29-40-47-50-57, with the Mega Ball being 25.
Before Wednesday evening’s Powerball win, it had been three months since anybody had received both of America’s two nationwide lotteries. Mega Millions was final received April 18, and Powerball the day after.
If taken in a single huge fee, as most up-to-date massive lottery winners have chosen to do, Friday’s $720 million prize can be value $369.6 million. The bigger, marketed quantity is what the opposite possibility — a 29-year annuity — can be value over its lifetime.
Federal taxes would rapidly take nearly 40% of that quantity, with state taxes a chance on high of that.
The $2 Mega Millions tickets are bought in 45 states, together with the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The odds of a profitable Mega Millions ticket are 1 in 302.5 million.
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