Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.
Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?
Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?
Can you decide whether these short statistical statements are always, sometimes or never true?
Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.
Imagine a room full of people who keep flipping coins until they get a tail. Will anyone get six heads in a row?
When two closely matched teams play each other, what is the most likely result?
A counter is placed in the bottom right hand corner of a grid. You toss a coin and move the star according to the following rules: ... What is the probability that you end up in the top left-hand corner of the grid?
If everyone in your class picked a number from 1 to 225, do you think any two people would pick the same number?
