Items From Home

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Items From Home

• a.) Coin. This illustrates probability because
  when you flip a coin, there is a 50 chance it
  will land on heads, and a 50 chance it will land
  on tails.

• b.) Seeds. One of my hobbies is growing plants.
  When I plant seeds, there is a high probability
  that I will not get 100 germination.

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Items From School

• a.) Stop watch

• b.) Punnett Square. This demonstrates
  probability in genetics.

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Items From News, Books, Internet

• d.)?

• e.)
• mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol6/intro_probability.htm
  l
• This demonstrates probability through an example
  with a spinner that has four colors on it

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Items From Community

• b.) Here is an interesting compound events game
  crctlessons.com/probability-game.html
• It states information and you have to pick the
  right probability for each event

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Community continued

• I'm not sure how it demonstrates probability, as
  I have not read the book.
• amazon.com/Pascals-Arithmetical-Triangle-Mathemati
  cal-Paperback/dp/0801869463

• c.) Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle The Story of
  a Mathematical Idea by A.W.F. Edwards
• Fact Although often displayed in a triangular
  array named after the seventeenth-century French
  philosopher Blaise Pascal, triangular numbers
  were known many centuries earlier