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Lottery and Birthday Probabilities

How many lottery tickets would have to be bought for there to be a >=50% probablility that every single possible combination has been chosen?  Or for smaller numbers how many people would you need in a room for there to be a >=50% probability that every day of the year is one or more of these people's birthdays?  

If these numbers are too large then how many people/tickets would be needed that there is a >=50% probability that >=50% of the lottery tickets/birthdays have been chosen?

Assume that birthdays and lottery tickets are chosen at random and not bunched, and forget about leap years to keep things slightly simpler.

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Eleven theory

Does anyone have a sensibly worded explanation as to why the alternate numbers of a multiple of eleven have the same sum?

e.g 312741  =  11 x 28431

3+2+4=1+7+1=9

I have given this some thought and have not been able to word it to an understandable degree.

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