Instruction
Post 1
What is the difference between theoretical and empirical probability? What is the theoretical probability of flipping a coin and getting a tail? Do you expect the empirical probability to be the same as the theoretical probability? Why or why not?
Name your favorite musician, actor, author or artist and do a Google search to find his or her age. Flip a coin one time for each year the person is old. If he or she is 34, flip the coin 34 times. Record the number of tails you obtain.
Use the data to determine the empirical probability that the coin will land on tails. Express the probability as a fraction, a decimal, and a percentage. Round your answers to two decimal places, if necessary.
Explain your calculations and show all work. Review an example of a response for this Discussion.
Post 2
You are looking for a home in your area. Go to a website that shows home prices in your area and allows you to search based on specific criteria. Identify at least three criteria (e.g., number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, square footage, type of heat) you can use to narrow your search and find the prices of at least ten homes. Do not include price as one of the criteria as we would like to see a range of prices.
What criteria did you use in your home search?
List the prices (ten or more) of the homes you found.
Find the mean, median, mode (if applicable), of the home prices. If there is no mode, explain why.
Explain your calculations and show all work. Review an example of a response for this Discussion.