CK-12-Basic Probability and Statistics Concepts - A Full Course

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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.

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