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Tool:
Stay or Switch? - The Monty Hall Problem |
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| Go to: |
http://www.stayorswitch.com/
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| Description: |
Players choose one of three doors to experimentally determine the odds of winning the grand prize behind one of the doors, as in the TV program "Let's Make a Deal." This site provides a variety of "explanations" and also a history of how the problem became famous in a newspaper column by Marilyn vos Savant in 1990. |
| Technology Type: |
Flash | |
| Guide: |
User's Guide
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| Author: |
Jeremy Jones |
| Language: |
English | |
| Cost: |
Does not require payment for use |
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| Courses: |
Math 6 |
Probability of event |
| Math 7 |
Probability of event, Conditional probability, Making predictions, Simulations, Experimental probability, Theoretical probability, Law of large numbers |
| Probability & Statistics |
Probability, Randomness |
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Seth |
| Comment: | This is a very simple demonstration of the Monte Hall problem. The front page has the simulation. The site includes 4 demonstrations of why as well as brief history of the problem. |
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