Nevada Math Project Day 1 WELCOME MEET OUR PROJECT TEAM D A V E L E N N Y S P E N C E COIN TOSSES AT THE SUPERBOWL Does the winner of the coin toss have an advantage at the superbowl ID: 746710
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FLIPPING COINS(and Lying about it!)
Nevada Math Project Day 1
WELCOMESlide2Slide3
MEET OUR PROJECT TEAM
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COIN TOSSES AT THE SUPERBOWL
Does the winner of the coin toss have an advantage at the
superbowl
?
In other words does the winner of the coin toss win the super bowl
an unusually large amount of the time?We have data from 50 super bowls – what do you think it shows?Slide8
I want you to flip a coin
100 times….
RECORD RESULTS AS:
T,H,T,T,H,T,….
ACTUALLY,
I WANT
YOU TO PRETEND…
HOW
WOULD I
TELL YOU
CHEATED?Slide9Slide10
By the way,
what are the chances of exactly
50 heads?
ABOUT 8%
of the time
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In Fifty Super Bowl Coin Tosses
HEADS 24 TIMES and TAILS 26 TIMES
3 RUNS of Length 4:
1990-1993 H
H
H H1998-2001 T T
T T2003 – 2006 T T T T We are on a current run of 3 2014-2016 T T T
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What about the winners & Losers?
24 out of 50 times the winner of the coin toss wins the super bowl!
THERE IS NO UNFAIR ADVANTAGE