A lottery offers one $1000 prize, one $400 prize, and 10 $100 prizes. One thousand tickets are sold at $2 each. Find the expectation (expected value) if a person buys one ticket.(The answer will be in dollars, but just type the amount, not the dollar sign. Be sure to indicate whether it is positive or negative.)

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Total number of tickets is one thousand.

Formula for probability is given below as,

[tex]\text{Prob}=\frac{required\text{ outcome}}{total\text{ outcome}}[/tex]

Probability of one $1000 prize is given below as,

[tex]P(\text{\$1000)=}\frac{1}{1000}[/tex]

Probability of one $400 prize is given below as,

[tex]P(\text{\$400)=}\frac{1}{1000}[/tex]

Probability of ten $100 prize is given below as,

[tex]P(\text{\$100)=}\frac{10}{1000}=\frac{1}{100}[/tex]

For the expected value if each person buys one ticket,

[tex]\begin{gathered} Expected\text{ value=}(\frac{1}{1000}\times1000)+(\frac{1}{1000}\times1000)+(\frac{1}{100}\times1000) \\ \text{Expected value=}(1+1+10)=\text{\$12} \end{gathered}[/tex]

Expected value is $12