Aligned Resources

Virginia Standards of Learning
Secondary
Probability and Statistics
PS.12 The student will identify and describe two or more events as complementary, dependent, independent, and/or mutually exclusive.

Activities (1)

Run a simulation to generate results from running the Monty Hall for multiple trials. This is similar to the game show "Let's Make A Deal", where you choose one of N doors in hopes of finding a grand prize behind one of the doors. Parameters: Number of doors, number of trials, staying, or switching between the two remaining doors.

Audiences: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Primary Subjects: Discrete, Modeling, Probability

Related Topics: conditional probability, events, experimental probability, fair, monty hall, outcomes, probability simulation, random number, simulation, theoretical probability, theoretical value, trials