3.5. Theoretical and Experimental Spinners http://www.ck12.org
Answer:
In the list of applications on the TI-84 calculator, choose Prob Sim.
After pressing
ENTER
, you will have the following screen appear.
Since we’re doing a spinner problem, choose Spin Spinner.
In Spin Spinner, a wheel with 4 possible outcomes is shown. You can adjust the number of spins, graph the frequency
of each number, and use a table to see the number of spins for each number. We want to set this spinner to spin 500
times. To do this, choose SET by pressing
ZOOM
, enter 500 after Trial Set, and choose OK by pressing
GRAPH
.
Remember that for this example, 1 = blue.