March Randomness Challenges and Outcomes: Week One
March 4, 2021
This is Statistics’ March Randomness spring contest provides students with the opportunity to use their probability and statistics intuition to predict the outcomes of 16 simple random experiments. Teams that run out of their StatCoin stash will be eliminated. At the end of the month, the team with the most StatCoin loot wins the competition!
Here are this week’s challenges and outcomes:
Challenge #1
Roll a 20-sided die and a 30-sided die.
Will the sum of the results be at least 20?
Challenge #1 Outcome
Borel co-founder Christoforos Anagnostopoulos shares the outcome of the first challenge.
Challenge #2
Flip a coin four times. Will you get heads exactly one time?
Challenge #2 Outcome
Casual Inference podcast hosts, Lucy D’Agostino McGowen and Ellie Murray, share the outcome of challenge #2.
Challenge #3
A pouch has two blue balls and two red balls. Shuffle and take out two balls at random.
Will both of them be red?
Challenge #3 Outcome
Chris Franklin, ASA K-12 Statistical Ambassador, shares the outcome of challenge #3.
Challenge #4
Roll a 6-sided die six times. Will you roll a 2 at least one time?
Challenge #4 Outcome
ASA President, Rob Santos, provides the outcome of challenge #4.
Updated contest challenges and outcomes will be posted daily.
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