Question

Penny needed to simulate rolling a standard die 6,000 times. If the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are on the faces of the die, determine the experimental probability of rolling a 3. Penny used an online random number generator for her simulation. The results of her experiment are displayed in the table.

Penny needed to simulate rolling a standard die 6,000 times. If the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are on the faces of the die, determine the experimental probability of rolling a 3. Penny used an online random number generator for her simulation. The results of her experiment are displayed in the table.

Answer 1

There are 6 possible results for each roll: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. Each result has a probability of 1 in 6 or 1/6. The probability of rolling a 3 is 1/6. After 3000 rolls, you would likely reach theoretical probability of 1/6 and therefore 1/6x3000 = 500 rolls would be a 3, so p(3) = 1/6.