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Direct linkPagni, David L. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2007
This article engages students in a simulation of the Coat Check problem, in which four women check their coats only to have them returned at random. Students examine the experimental and theoretical probability of at least one woman getting her own coat back.
Descriptors: Probability, Middle School Students, Simulation, Computation
