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\f0\b\fs24 \cf2 BY MEGAN RICE \b0 \
\b ANCHOR ZACH TOOMBS \b0 \
Image: ({\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2012/11/23/powerball-jackpot-balloons-to-325-million/"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 Fox Business News}})\
\ Powerball tickets may have doubled in price
this year but that doesn\'92t seem to be hurting sales at all. {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://watertown.ynn.com/content/top_stories/595305/big-powerball-drawing-tonight/"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 YNN reports.}}\
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\b \'93Wednesday night's powerball jackpot drawing has shot up to the half billion mark.
It's a record, but if no one wins on Wednesday- we'll see another record jackpot as it inches
ever closer to one billion mark.\'94 \b0 \
\ Even if a name isn\'92t called for the $500
million dollar powerball, {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2012/11/23/powerball-jackpot-balloons-to-325-million/"}}{\fldrslt
\cf3 \ul \ulc3 Fox Business News explains someone}} is pulling down some cash.\
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\b \'93States taking in a record $60.8 billion from lotteries this year. That\'92s almost
a 9% increase from last year. This an increasingly important revenue stream for cash-strapped
state governments.\'94 \b0 \
\ Feeling lucky? Well you might want to think
again. {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/national/powerball-odds-could-you-be-the-next-winner#ixzz2DSGyhoDv"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 Here\'92s Tampa Bay\'92s WFTS
with your}} odds of winning.\ \
\b \'93Tim Norfolk, a University of Akron mathematics professor who teaches a course
on gambling, puts the odds of a lightning strike in a person's lifetime at 1 in 5,000.
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot: 1 in 175 million.\'94
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The powerball drawing will be on Wednesday, November 28th, at 10pm central.\
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