Click here to compare your answer. Assess the students' understanding of probability and the factors that would determine success and profits. For a popular carnival game, a player tosses a coin onto a game board that looks like a checkerboard. If the coin touches a line on the game board the player loses. If not, the player wins.
Players get three throws for a dollar.
You've been asked to design a similar game for your school's fund-raising carnival. To make the game more fun, you've decided to let players throw old scratched CDs rather than coins. So, the cost of three throws can depend on which size a player chooses to throw. All plans for the games must be approved by the carnival planning committee. You want to make as large a profit as possible, but if too few people win, people won't want to play the game.