"Chance Encounters"

Khalid and Kiki's game




Kiki's description: Today, from quarter to nine, we set up eight probability games in the foyer. These games we made with a partner and I was with Khalid. The rules for our game were these:

1. Pick a card from inside the box and without looking.
2. Whatever colour you get, you have to try to get it on the spinner. If the spinner lands between two colours, you have to spin again.

The chances of winning are 1/3 or 33%.

During the fair eight classes didn't come. Altogether 228 people came to our game. Out of that number, 109 people won our game and 119 people lost, so the experimental probability was 48%. We were a bit off the theoretical probability.


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