Mathematics Methods Units 3,4

Investigation 3 2017
Simulations (Take Home)

STUDENTS NAME _________________________________________________

DATE: Thursday 24 August

INSTRUCTIONS:
Standard Items: Pens, pencils, drawing templates, eraser, 3 calculators

Special Instructions You may not refer to this document during your in class assessment.
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Part I Discrete Uniform

To simulate the rolling of a die, we must use

randList(num of simulations, min, max).

To ensure we all simulate the same data, we must use RandSeed value. This sets all of our calculators
to randomly simulate the same data.

Copy out the following screen onto your main screen.

The explanations of each part are below:

randList Discrete Continuous

600 Number of simulations of rolling a die

1 Minimum value

6 Maximum value

Store the list

list1 store data in list1

Obviously, we cannot see all of these 600 simulations.

We need to use Statistics to view a histogram of this simulated

set of data

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Click on Menu and then Statistics.

You can see all of your data in list1.

To view this data, we need to use SetGraph and click on Setting

Ensure that Histogram is selected.

Click the plot/graph button (top left) and make sure you set the
HStep to 0.2. This is required to ensure there are gaps between the
bars.

If you now click Analysis and Trace, your curser will then go to the
top of the first column.

This should have a frequency of 102. This means the number 1

came up 102 times from 600 simulations.

To get the other frequencies, move your curser to the other

columns.

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Part II Discrete Binomial

To simulate the flipping of 10 coins, we must use

randBin(number in binomial, probability of success, number of simulations).

To ensure we all simulate the same data, we must use RandSeed value. This sets all of our calculators
to randomly simulate the same data.

Copy out the following screen onto your main screen.

The explanations of each part are below:

randBin Discrete Binomial

10 Number of trials in the Binomial

0.5 Chance of success in the Binomial

500 Number of simulations of flipping 10

coins

Store the list

list1 store data in list1

Obviously, we cannot see all of these 500 simulations.

We need to use Statistics to view a histogram of this

simulated set of data

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Click on Menu and then Statistics.

You can see all of your data in list1.

Your calculator settings are still the same as before

Click the plot/graph button (top left) and make sure you set the
HStep to 0.2. This is required to ensure there are gaps between
the bars.

If you now click Analysis and Trace, your curser will then go to
the top of the first column.

If you move your curse to column 4 it should have a frequency

of 102. This means 4 Heads came up 102 times when we flipped
the 10 coins from the 500 simulations.

You need to ensure you know how to use both RandSeed, randList and
randBin for you In class Investigation. Pay attention to the order of
the parameters.

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