Crazy Choices Game Tally Table

Name of player: # of favorable outcomes: Total # of outcomes: Total # of games played: # of games won: Experimental probability*:
    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* The following formula should be used for experimental probability:

Experimental probability = (# of games won)/(Total # of games played)

Obviously, experimental probability is computed after all the data is collected. Here is the example of the game statistics. Anton played with a spinner that had 3 equal sections and won if the spinner stopped at Section 1 or 2, Bella played with a ten-sided die and won if the die rolled 2, 4, 6 or 8 up, and Cindy played with a coin and won if it fell heads up. Students planned to play fifty games. They tallied the results of every game and then counted their victories:

Name of player: # of favorable outcomes: Out of the total of this many outcomes: Total number of games played: Number of games won: Experimental probability*:
Anton 2 3                      

50

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32

32/50 = .64
Bella 4 10      ///

18

18/50 = .36
Cindy 1 2          ///

28

28/50 = .56

The players concluded that Anton had the best chances of winning, followed by Cindy and then Bella.