Question

a cereal company is giving away 1 or 6 different prizes in each box of cereal. describe a simulation you could use yo estimate the number of boxes needed to get all 6 prizes.

Answer 1

You could let the numbers on a die represent the number of the box of cereal.  Roll a die and record the answer; keep doing this process until you have rolled all of the numbers from 1-6.  This would be your estimate for the number of boxes you would need.

Answer 2

between 6 or 1 box.

Explanation:

Since, this is a probability question, there can be two optimum possibilities and the correct answer should lie between both the possibilities.

The minimum number of cereal boxes in which he can get all 6 prizes can be 1, because the cereal company has maximally added 6 different prizes in each box of cereal.

The maximum number of cereal boxes in which he can get all 6 prizes can be 6, because the cereal company has minimally added 1 prize in each box of cereal.