IM Unit 8 Lesson 6 7th Grade

IM Unit 8 Lesson 6 7th Grade

By SARAH KELLY

Multiple Select

• Top Left

• Top Right

• Bottom Left

• Bottom Right

Open Ended

After a robot stands up, it is equally likely to step forward with its left foot or its right foot. Which foot will it use for its first step?

Open Ended

Your school is taking 4 buses of students on a field trip. Will you be assigned to the same bus that your math teacher is riding on?

Open Ended

In a computer game, there are three tunnels. Each time the level loads, the computer randomly selects one of the tunnels to lead to the castle. Which tunnel is it?

Open Ended

Six people are going out to lunch together. One of them will be selected at random to choose which restaurant to go to. Who gets to choose?

Draw

What is a simulation?

Open Ended

In a video game, the chance of rain each day is always 30%. At the beginning of each day in the video game, the computer generates a random integer between 1 and 50. Explain how you could use this number to simulate the weather in the video game.

Draw

The weather forecast says there is a 75% chance it will rain later today.

Draw a spinner you could use to simulate this probability.

Describe another way you could simulate this probability.

Poll

An experiment will produce one of ten different outcomes with equal probability for each. Why would using a standard number cube to simulate the experiment be a bad choice?

• Its not a bad option

• A standard cube only has 6 sides

• Its a 50/50 chance

• Always a bad idea

Open Ended

What is the same about these two experiments? What is different?

Selecting a letter at random from the word “ALABAMA”

Selecting a letter at random from the word “LAMB”