Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Do Ya Feel Lucky?
by Sandy Wood - July 9, 2008 - 6:30 AM

ANSWER: THREE would be used more. The easiest way to understand this is to remember that all one hundred thousand of the numbers between 300,000 and 399,999 will contain at least one three. This isn’t true with seven, since the numbers end at 777,777.

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