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begonia
May 8th, 2012, 09:21 AM
DD1 is in kindergarten and her homework last night was to flip a coin 8 times and graph the outcome. Heads v Tails, you know, good ol' 50/50 chances. For some people. For her, 7 heads, 1 tail :rofl:

Poor kid was actually quite frustrated at her results so we played again. That time, she got 6 tails and 2 heads. She was bothered but I did manage to show her that if she looked at ALL 16 of her flips (even though she could only graph the 1st 8) she got much closer to 50/50 with 9 heads and 7 tails.

I guess we just need to have 16 kids :wink:

nuthinbutpink
May 8th, 2012, 09:21 AM
LOL!

auroara78
May 8th, 2012, 09:26 AM
LOL Love this story!! haha

LolaInLove
May 8th, 2012, 12:21 PM
HAHA, I remember that exercise in school as well! Just go for 16. Maybe you could get a reality show and all of their college paid for with the proceeds? :baby::baby::baby::baby::baby::baby::baby::baby::b aby::baby::baby::baby::baby::baby::baby:

Princess of Pink
May 16th, 2012, 06:50 AM
I would bloody end up with 16 girls for sure!! Buy shares in a sanitary products, hair tie and make-up company!!

Myloves
May 16th, 2012, 09:33 PM
Hilarious story! :)
If I were to have anymore, I'd probably have loads of boys with the odd girl in between.
Like :bigboy::bigboy::biggirl2::bigboy::bigboy::bigboy: :biggirl2::bigboy::bigboy::biggirl2::bigboy::bigbo y::bigboy::biggirl2::bigboy::bigboy:

Hobbermittens
May 16th, 2012, 09:43 PM
I did that just for fun the other day, and got 5 tails in a row!

Surprise5th
August 20th, 2012, 09:51 PM
What a fun way to look at things! I always try to find patterns in life, I guess this would throw my theory off.