Question

A cereal company is putting 1 of 3 prizes in each box of cereal. The prizes are evenly distributed so the

probability of winning any given prize is always 1/3


Mohamed wonders how many boxes he should expect to buy to get all 3 prizes. He carried out 24 trials of


a simulation and his results are shown below. Each dot represents how many boxes it took to get all 3


prizes in that trial.


3


4 5


6


7 8


9 10 11 12


# of boxes purchased


Use his results to estimate the probability that it takes more than 3 boxes to get all 3 prizes


Give your answer as either a fraction or a decimal


P(more than 3 boxes) C

Answer 1

0.625

Step-by-step explanation:

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Further Explanation:

Mohamed carried out 24 trials of a simulation

Therefore, Total frequencies = 24

To get number of frequency greater than 3 we have to use the result in the result in the graph to obtain the estimate. Look at the graph below, when you count the dots that are on number of boxes purchased greater than 3, you will get 15.

Therefore, Number of frequency greater than 3 = 15

P(more than 3 boxes) = 15/24 = 0.625