Answer:
There are 3478761 ways to select the first 5 numbers
Step-by-step explanation:
As understood from the statement of this problem we assume that it does not matter the order in which the first 5 white balls are selected.
In this case it is a combination.
So, what we want to know is how many ways you can choose 5 white balls out of 55.
Then we use the formula of combinations:
Where you have n elements and choose x from them.
Then we look for: