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Two‐dice horse race
Author(s) -
Foster Colin,
Martin David
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12108
Subject(s) - dice , race (biology) , task (project management) , horse , space (punctuation) , mathematics , computer science , statistics , sociology , biology , engineering , gender studies , paleontology , systems engineering , operating system
Summary 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.