Fun with Probability! The Probable Pen in the Cereal Box Results as of April 23

Well, the results are in for the first day. We have had three classrooms complete the project. So far, compared to the calculated expected of 14.7, we're pretty close.

Our Statistics so far:

• Max: 30
• Min: 6
• Median: 14.00
• Mean: 13.77
• StDev: 5.26

And our first histogram (this shows the distribution of rolls for the three reporting classes):

Don't forget to check out the registrant information (it even has some 3-D graphs!)

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