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Adjustable Spinner

Questions
Create a spinner of your choosing. Add or delete sectors, change their sizes and colors, go wild.
Make sure the Number of Spins is 1, and click the Spin button.
1.) How does the experimental probability compare to the theoretical probability?

2.) Click the Spin button a few more times. What happens?

Change the Number of Spins to 100, and click the Spin button.
3.) How do the experimental and theoretical probabilities now compare?

4.) Hit the Spin button a few more times. What happens?

5.) What would you expect to happen if you hit the button many times?

Increase the Number of Spins to a very large number (the maximum allowed is 99,999) and hit the spin
button one or more times.
6.) Now compare the theoretical and experimental probabilities. What do you notice?

7.) Was your prediction correct?

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