Mrs. Hudson has made another assignment that Karen and Dakota are excited to try. To conduct your own experiment, you will need
dice and a place to record your results. In this assignment, you will first calculate the theoretical probability for rolling a sum of 7. Then, you will roll the dice and add the numbers shown, recording your results as you go. Calculate the experimental probability for rolling a 7 after the 1st, 10th, and 100th rolls. Compare these results with the theoretical probability of rolling a sum of 7. How does this comparison change as the number of trials increase? 1. List out the sample space for the experiment and then calculate the theoretical probability. _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
The experimental probability could be more, the same or less than the theoretical probability of rolling a 1 (which is 1/6).
The larger your sample (i. e., as you go beyond 60 tosses), the closer the two different probabilities are likely to be. (Think: Law of Large Numbers).
