A small-town carnival has a simple game that you can play with a number cube. If you roll a 6 you win a fluffy teddy bear. If you roll a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 you get a piece of stale gum. After watching other children play the game 50 times, only 2 children have won a teddy bear. You decide to simulate the game with a random number table. a) Determine labels for your outcomes. b) Using the random number table below, determine how many times a “6” appears in 50 trials. c) What percentage of a “6” in 50 trials did you get from the simulation?
. A small-town carnival has a simple game that you can play with a number cube. If you roll a
6 you win a fluffy teddy bear. If you roll a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 you get a piece of stale gum. After
watching other children play the game 50 times, only 2 children have won a teddy bear. You
decide to simulate the game with a random number table.
a) Determine labels for your outcomes.
b) Using the random number table below, determine how many times a “6” appears in 50 trials.
c) What percentage of a “6” in 50 trials did you get from the simulation?
d) What percentage of a “6” did you observe at the carnival?
e) How do your answers for parts (c) and (d) compare? What does this tell you about the
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