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Picking Fortune Cookies

This applet, created by A.M. Garsia of the University of California - San Diego, is a probabilistic study of picking fortunes from a limited supply of fortune cookies. The student will try to answer how many cookies he/she has to eat to have a 50/50 chance of reading all the fortunes. This is an easy to use and fun activity for any mathematics classroom. It puts this real world situation into an understandable mathematics context.... Show More

Keywords:: stem education, workforce development, technician training, advanced technological education

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Mathematics and Statistics / Statistics and Probability

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Material Type:: Reference Material
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 18, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 18, 2016
Author:: Garsia, A.M., University of California, San Diego. Dept. of Mathematics
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: No
Creative Commons:: No

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