OverviewThe purpose of this discussion is to give you practice defining and identifying empirical and theoretical probability situations.InstructionsAfter completing the exploration for the module, you will be ready to participate in this discussion. For this discussion, you will need an initial post and at least two replies for a total of 3 posts.For your initial post:Define empirical and theoretical probability.Describe a situation where empirical probability would be used.Explain why your situation represents empirical probability.Put your situation in the subject line, so we don't duplicate posts. (You need to post before you can see other's posts).For your replies, consider your peers' posts. Is there a way to change their scenario to make it a theoretical probability situation? Explain your answer.ExampleAfter defining theoretical and empirical probability, I might say that blindly drawing one card from a standard deck of cards 200 times (and recording the card draw) to see the probability of drawing a king is an empirical probability.A peer may reply that instead of experimenting to determine the actual probability, I could use the knowledge that there are 4 kings in a deck of 52 cards and calculate the probability to be 4/52.

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Overview

The purpose of this discussion is to give you practice defining and identifying empirical and theoretical probability situations.

Instructions

After completing the exploration for the module, you will be ready to participate in this discussion. For this discussion, you will need an initial post and at least two replies for a total of 3 posts.

For your initial post:

Define empirical and theoretical probability.
Describe a situation where empirical probability would be used.
Explain why your situation represents empirical probability.
Put your situation in the subject line, so we don't duplicate posts. (You need to post before you can see other's posts).

For your replies, consider your peers' posts. Is there a way to change their scenario to make it a theoretical probability situation? Explain your answer.

Example

After defining theoretical and empirical probability, I might say that blindly drawing one card from a standard deck of cards 200 times (and recording the card draw) to see the probability of drawing a king is an empirical probability.
A peer may reply that instead of experimenting to determine the actual probability, I could use the knowledge that there are 4 kings in a deck of 52 cards and calculate the probability to be 4/52.

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