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Old 05-26-2010, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Diver67 View Post
How is the cost of a ticket calculated? For a dollar Pick 4, its easy to simply multiply by the number of selections per race. (Right?) But if your bet is 50 cents, how does it work? If I have 4x4x2, do I multiply (.50x4)(.50x4)(.50x2), which comes out to 2x2x1, or $4. But a $1 ticket would be $32, so this makes no sense. Help!
It's not any different than playing it for $1. You don't multiply by $.50 for each leg, just as you wouldn't multiply by $2 for each leg if you were playing it for $2. You multiply the total number of combinations by $.50. In your case, it would be 32 x $.50.
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