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Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events

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  • Aug 17 2010 8:54 PM

    David Melton

     

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This lesson, from the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., is based on several interesting problems. Each problem has a somewhat unexpected answer; in fact, many people have a hard time accepting experimental results for these problems, as the results may seem counterintuitive. This very difference in expectations and actual results leads to a deeper consideration of the related mathematics and to acquiring new tools for solving problems, namely the ideas and formulas connected with conditional probability and probability of simultaneous events. Less

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    Grade: 7 to 12

    Topics: Mathematics, Number Sense, Probability, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

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    Teaching Method: Problem-Solving; Discussions; Simulation; Cooperative Learning