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m&m trial and decay
Project #982 on iSENSEProject.org
Description
Given: two sizes of m&ms:
Fill two cups with M&Ms, so that one cup is full of large M&Ms and the other is full of small ones.
Given a paper plate, draw a sector from center. Your sector has to be between 1/10 and 1/2 of the plate.
Toss one cup of M&Ms into the plate and record the total number and the number in your sector. Record the numbers. Remove the M&Ms that land in the sector. Place other M&Ms in the cup and repeat. Record numbers again. Repeat until you run out of M&Ms.
Repeat with other size M&Ms.
Fields
| Name | Units | Type of Data |
|---|---|---|
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Approx. size of sector
|
degrees
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Number
|
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Number of large M&Ms remaining
|
# large M&M
|
Number
|
|
Number of small M&Ms remaining
|
# small M&M
|
Number
|
|
Trial number
|
None
|
Number
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Our Data
Name(s): ______________________________________
Date: _________________________________________
| Approx. size of sector | Number of large M&Ms remaining | Number of small M&Ms remaining | Trial number |