Question

A cereal box contains exactly 1 out of 4 available prizes. Emily wishes to collect all 4 prizes and wonders how many boxes of cereal she should expect to buy if all the prizes are equally distributed. She performs 100 simulations of the problem and records the results in the dot plot below. Based on the results of the simulation, how many boxes of cereal should she expect to buy in order to collect all 4 prizes?A. 4B. 8C. 12D. 24

Answer 1

Based on the results of the simulation she expects to buy 8 boxes of cereal to get the 4 prizes.

This comes from the fact that for most simulations it took 8 boxes to get all four prizes.

Therefore the answer is B.