CNN Erin Burnett OutFront March 31, 2012
right way. this is a rare lottery. usually the expected value of a ticket, of $1 ticket is well below a buck and lotteries are bad bets. the pot's grown so large this time and so many people are playing, that expected value of a ticket based on the $640 million jackpot and about 175 million playing, a little over $3. if you haven't bought a ticket, might as well. a lot of people are imagining what a win could do to their lives. there were lines for tickets in 42 states and the district of columbia's lottery tickets reach $3 million an hour. these are numbers that have never been seen...