What Could You Buy With A Powerball Jackpot?

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Your odds of getting struck and killed by lightning: 1 in 775,000. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot: 1 in 175,223,510. ... So who's feeling lucky?

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We all know cash rules everything around us. Feel free to pass out $.71 to every man, woman, and child in America. All 311,591,917 of them.

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The highest end model of the iPad 4 is fully equipped with a Retina display, WiFi and cellular connectivity, and 64 GB of memory. And a $829 price tag. But after winning the lottery, you could buy at least two for every single Hartford resident (all 124,775 of them).

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Roughly 50 million households are estimated to carry an average of $15,956 in credit card debt. Do your fellow Americans a solid, and pay it down for 14,014 of them.

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You could pick up the latest and greatest professional Digital SLR cameras from Nikon and Canon! Go for it and buy 17,000 of Nikon's professional D4 at an MSRP of $5999.95 ($107,982,000) Don't worry Canon fans, with the money leftover after that you can also get 17,000 of the new Canon EOS-1D X (for another $122,382,000, at MSRP $6,799). Need memory cards? With the money leftover, pick up a 8,616 Compact Flash cards from Sandisk. We mean the 128 Gb, 100 Mb per second compact flash cards too (MSRP $699.99).

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With your money, you could technically fly you private jet and deliver your packages by hand. But if you choose to use the US Postal Service, you can buy 496,920,444 stamps at the 2012 price of 45 cents.

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Swim a few laps around a bottle of Louis XIII. This cognac costs around $1,800 a bottle. You can afford one or two... or 124,230. Now let's buy some caviar! Iran's Almas caviar is sold in a 24-karat gold tin, and costs $25,000 a pop.

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How about a private jet? A real big one? A Boeing 767-300ER would cost you 173.1 of your millions dollars. If you're feeling rather dreamy, you could almost get one of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliners. It only costs a cool 227.8 million. Price of fuel? We'll worry about the specifics later.