Question

In 2008, golfer Annika Sornestam had a driving accuracy of 71%. That is, on par 4 and par 5 holes, her tee shot landed in the fairway 71% of the time. Explain how to use a spinner to simulate Sorenstam’s performance in a round of golf where she attempts 15 drives. (Hint: What type of chart is a spinner? What does each piece represent?)

Answer 1

Answer:

Ok, we know that the driving accuracy is of 71%.

Then the first step is to get a spinner that is enumerated from 1 to 100 (in such way that each number is equispaced)

Now, we can mark a section between numbers 1 and 71. (this regio represents the cases where the shot lands in the fairway) and the unmarked region represents the cases where the shot does not land in the fairway.

Now, for each shot, we can spin our spinner next to a fixed pencil, depending on the section of the spinner that is marked by the pencil when the spinner fully stops, we can guess if the shot landed or not in the fairway.

In this way the shot has the region from 1 to 71 (71%) to land in the fairway

and the region from 72 to 100 to not land in the fairway.

If you want to simulate Sorenstam’s performance in a round of golf where she attempts 15 drives, you need to spin the spinner 15 times, and record the oucomes.