Question: how many different combinations of 5 numbers 1-69?
Answer: This means that there are 3,176,880 different ways in which 1 number out of 5 numbers drawn from a field of 69 numbers can be chosen correctly. Thus, the chances are 3,176,880 in 11,238,513 of correctly choosing 1 out of 5 numbers in the first portion of PowerBall.