Probability and Integration, I -- TI-92

The TI-92 line rand(2) produces 1 or 2 with equal probability. You can think of this as simulating a flip of a fair coin with 1 representing tails and 2 representing heads. The screen below shows seven computer-simulated coin flips.

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If we subtract 1 then 0 represents tails and 1 represents heads as shown in the screen below.

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The screen below simulates 1,000 flips of a fair coin and counts the number of heads.

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You may want to look at the TI-92 help modules below.


Copyright c 1997 by Frank Wattenberg, Department of Mathematics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717