A government statistician claims that the odds are 2 to 1 that unemployment will go up and 5 to 1 that it will go down. Distribute dice, coins and spinners. Have students work in small groups of four or five. Group members pool and compare results. Each member performs the experiment 10 times and records data.
Groups pool their results and compare results again.
C. Spinners 1. Do the same type of experiment with the spinners. Convert this to odds. Explain your reasoning.