1.3.1 ls Rock Paper Scissors A Fair Game?
Rock Paper Scissors is played between two players. The players both count to three, each time
raising one hand in a fist and swinging it down during the count. On the third count the players
change their hands into one of three gestures.
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The object of the game is to select a gesture that defeats the gesture of your opponent.
Rock smashes scissors, rock wins
Paper covers rock, paper wins
Scissors cut paper, scissors win
lf both players select the same gesture, game is tied, play again.
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This is a non-transitive game
Students play 50 games and record their wins/losses in a chart or tally sheet.
Students determine the experimental probability of winning Rock Paper Scissors and determine
if Rock Paper Scissors is a fair game. (ls it a game of chance or a game of skill?)
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