Group 2 Members: Revon Lafleur (Group Leader)

Devkumar Gangaram
John Pancham
Faith Elias
Mahima Narine
Lydia Roberts
Kerisa Wade
Class: Form 4 Science
Teacher: Sir Henry Brandon
Date of Submission: February 2nd, 2018

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 Table of Contents

Contents Page

Acknowledgement 3

Introduction 4

Statement of Situation or Problem 5

Method Of Collecting Data 6

Presentation of Data 7
Calculations 8

Conclusion 9
Appendix 10
Bibliography 11

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 Acknowledgement

As a group, we would like to extend our sincere thank you to our Almighty
for giving us the wisdom, knowledge, strength and energy to complete our
assignment. We would also like to thank our parents for providing all the necessary
materials for completing the project and for aiding in the success of the project
both financially and morally. We would like to thank our teacher, Sir Henry
Brandon for giving us this project so that we can use it as a learning opportunity. A
great thank you to all our friends and everyone who assisted us in the completion
of the project. Thank you.

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 Introduction

This is a school-based project given to us by our Mathematics Teacher. It

comprises of statistics calculations specifically finding the probability of multiple
situations or problems. In this project, a minimum of 30 trials was performed in
order to determine the probability of the problems. We hope that after going
through this project, the reader can learn as much as we did.

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 Topic
Probability

Statement of Situation or Problem

Situation
Bowling down blue bowling pins and picking white beads

Trial:
How many times a blue bowling pin can be hit down along with pulling a white
beads, there are fifteen bowling pins ; 5 blue bowling pins, 6 white beads, 4 yellow
bowling pins and fifty seven beads; 6 white beads, 9 red beads, 19 green beads, 12
blue beads.

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Method of Collecting Data
The group members determined the 3 blue bowling pins that was knocked down
and 2 white beads that could be accumulated.
The thirty-five trail consists of knocking down blue bowling pin once and pulling
white beads. The thirty-five trials were conducted and recorded in the table below.
The contingency table is a table that tallies observations by multiple categorical
variables. The tables' rows and columns correspond to these categorical variables
Data Collection Sheet for recording the data for Bowling Pins

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Presentation of Data
The table below shows the number of coloured bowling pins that was knocked down by each
student. Each student made 5 trials.
Hence, there was a total of 35 trials made.

Table 1:
Contingency Table showing the data recorded for bowling the different colours of bowling pins.

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Total Number of Bowling Pins = 15
Number of Blue Bowling Pins = 5
Number of Pink Bowling Pins = 6
Number of White Bowling Pins = 4

Total Number of Beads = 57

Number of White Beads = 6
Number of Red Beads = 9
Number of Green Beads = 19
Number of Blue Beads = 12
Number of Yellow Beads = 11

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 Calculations
Experimental Probability
Formula:
Number of time the event occurred
Number of trials

35 35 1
P (knocking down a blue bowling pin and picking up a white bead) = 175 = = 5 = 0.2
175

Theoretical Probability
Formula:
Number of favourable outcomes
Number of Possible outcomes

Bowling Pins: The probability of knocking down a blue bowling pin.

5 5 1
P (Blue Bowling Pins) = 15 = 15 = 3 / 0.33
(There are 5 blue bowling pins and they are 15 total bowling pins.)

Beads: The probability of pulling a white bead.

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P (White Beads) = 57 = 0.105
(There are 6 white beads in the bag and they are 57 total outcomes of coloured beads.)

What is the probability of getting blue bowling pins and white beads?
1 6 6
P (Blue Bowling Pins and White Beads) = 3 × 57 = 171 / 0.035

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Appendix

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 Bibliography
Book:
 Second Edition - Mathematics - A Complete Course With CXC Questions:
Volume Two By Raymond Toolsie BSc, MACP
Websites:
 http://roxborosec.edu.tt/downloads/csecmath2017.pdf

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