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Algebra II | Packer Collegiate Institute | 2008-2009


C-14 PRELIMINARY EXERCISE
Say you have 100 pennies.
You flip them. How many come up heads? ______
You set aside all the pennies that came up tails. You
come up heads?______
You set aside all the pennies that came up tails. You
come up heads?______
You set aside all the pennies that came up tails. You
come up heads?______
You set aside all the pennies that came up tails. You
come up heads?______
You set aside all the pennies that came up tails. You
come up heads?______
You set aside all the pennies that came up tails. You
come up heads?______
You set aside all the pennies that came up tails. You
come up heads?______

flip the rest. How many pennies


flip the rest. How many pennies
flip the rest. How many pennies
flip the rest. How many pennies
flip the rest. How many pennies
flip the rest. How many pennies
flip the rest. How many pennies

Instead of collecting 100 pennies and flipping them, or flipping one penny 100 times,
lets use our calculators to simulate the penny flipping.
CALCULATOR SIMULATION!
We need to tell the calculator to flip 100 pennies for us. Well, the calculator can generate
random numbers. We can tell it to generate a random integer between 0 and 1. That will
give us 50% chance of the number being 0, and 50% chance of the number being 1.
Ummm thats like flipping a coin and having 50% chance of it coming up heads and
50% chance of it coming it tails. RAD.
Let us say if it comes up 1, the coin came up heads, and if it comes up 0, the
coin came up tails.
MATH > PROB > randInt

Since it came up 1, this coin came up heads.


But we want to do this 100 times. AAAH!
1

Oh, our calculator can do that too! Lets have it do it, and save the results of the flips in
List 1.

How many heads did we get? Well isn t that the same as knowing how many 1s we
have?
2nd LIST > MATH > sum

I claim 51 of the 100 coins came up heads. Why?

Now youve learned enough about using the calculator to simulate the experiment.
Experiment
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# of
Coins
Being
Flipped

# of Coins
that came
up Heads

100

Record your data on the graph on the next page. Then answer these questions.
2

1. How would you graph look if your experiment started out with 1,000,000 coins?
How would it differ from the graph you produced?

2. Come up with an equation which approximates your data, using your newfound
knowledge of exponential functions. HINT: think about the questions you answered
before the simulation.

heads

experiment #

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