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Two‐dice horse race |
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| Authors: | Colin Foster David Martin |
| Abstract: | We analyse the “two‐dice horse race” task often used in lower secondary school, in which two ordinary dice are thrown repeatedly and each time the sum of the scores determines which horse (numbered 1 to 12) moves forwards one space. |
| Keywords: | Teaching Statistics Simulations to estimate probabilities Two‐dice experiment Markov processes |