Probability and Statistics in Games

Once one understands the basics of probability when playing games, like Candy Land, they have a better understanding of the possible outcomes that can occur every time they draw a card from the deck. For instance, in Candy Land there are 66 cards in a deck and 6 of those cards are for a special location on the board. If you know how many cards have been drawn out already and how many special location cards are left you can calculate the probability that you will get a special location card, the next time you draw from the deck. That way when you are making bets on the outcome of the game you can know if you have a good chance of winning or not.
While this strategy helps you know the possible outcomes of Candy Land, manipulating the deck is a way to know, without a doubt, that you will win the game. When I was younger I didn't like not knowing, with full certainty, that I was going to win a game, so I cheated. I would strategically put all of the special location cards to where I would get them all and eventually win the game. So while knowing probabilities and statistics can help in games cheating is the best way to play card games, just saying.      

Hey Mr. Morris! ok so i'm really good at factoring, i have that down. Im bad at matrices sequences and series like oh my god i need so much help with that. and i kind of understand logs like i could do them a little while ago but i still don't feel completely comfortable with them.

Exponential Growth

For my project we studied the growth of Divergent book sales, since it was published in 2011. Divergent is the first of three books in the series and is very popular with a growth rate in book sales of 214% per year, which is huge! Here is what we found!
This is exponential growth, growth at a rapid rate in proportion to the total number, instead of linear growth, growth at a constant rate, because for every year after Divergent was published the total book sales have grown by 214%. This is an example of exponential growth because the total number of books sold isn’t increasing at a constant rate in proportion to the number of years but instead it is growing at a rapid and disproportional rate.

An example of exponential growth in real life is when talking about interest rates.

First Day Stuff

Hey my name is Elizabeth!

Im a pretty normal person but an interesting fact about myself is that I play lacrosse I guess. The reason I LOVE math is because its the same in every language! #MeanGirls