Coin Activity
Select the 'coin' radio button on the applet. Press the 'Get data' button to toss the coin 10000 times, do this several times so the results of a number of experiments are overlain in the plot. Use the plots to respond to the prompts below.
1. Move between the plot display radio buttons ('show %heads' et al.) as needed to answer the following questions.
2. Are you more likely to get exactly 50% heads in 10 tosses or 1000 tosses of a coin? Explain.
Die Activity
Select the 'die' radio button on the applet. Press the 'Get data' button to roll the die 10000 times, do this several times so the results of a number of experiments are overlain in the plot. Use the plots to respond to the prompts below.
1. Move between the plot display radio buttons ('show %threes' et al.) as needed to answer the following questions.
2. Are you more likely to get exactly the expected percentage of threes in 10 rolls or 1000 rolls of a die? Explain.