In the game of Scrabble, each player begins by randomly selecting 7 tiles from a bag containing
Question:
In the game of Scrabble, each player begins by randomly selecting 7 tiles from a bag containing 100 tiles. There are 42 vowels, 56 consonants, and 2 blank tiles in the bag. Cait chooses her 7 tiles and is surprised to discover that all of them are vowels. We want to perform a simulation to determine the probability that a player will randomly select 7 vowels.
a. Describe how you would use a table of random digits to carry out this simulation.
b. Perform one trial of the simulation using the random digits given. Copy the digits onto your paper and mark directly on or above them so that someone can follow what you did.
c. In 2 of the 1000 trials of the simulation, all 7 tiles were vowels. Does this result give convincing evidence that the bag of tiles was not well mixed?
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a To perform this simulation using a table of random digits you would first assign each tile in the ...View the full answer
