Fun with Probability! The Probable Pen in the Cereal Box Results as of May Day, 10:34 pm CST

Over the 600 mark in number of students, with more than 10,000 boxes of cereal purchased. If we assume a $3.00 box of cereal, it would have cost more than $30,000 to execute this experiment in real life! Click here to see a list of submissions so far. Also, see the new comments page. (Check out one enchanting anecdote.) Our Statistics to date:

• Max: 95 (New high, and a high one at that! I think we have a world's record.)
• Min: 6 (Guess it can't get any smaller!!)
• Median: 15.00 (This hasn't change in about 4 days -- coincidence?)
• Mean: 15.85 (Still over the expected value of 14.7, nothing like a 95 to skew the data)
• StDev: 7.78 (No change from last nite!)
• Count: 662 (Represents 10,492 die rolls)

And our latest histogram (this shows the distribution of rolls for the 47 reporting classes):

Don't forget to check out the registrant information (it even has some 3-D graphs!). Also, for a history of results pages, check out the results index.

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