Question

at a carnival, a customer notices that a prize wheel has 5 equal parts, one of which is labeled \winner.\ she would like to conduct a simulation to determine how many spins it would take for the wheel to land on \winner.\ she assigns the digits to the outcomes.
0, 1 = winner
2 - 9 = not a winner
how can a random number table be used to simulate one trial of this situation?
read 100 single - digit numbers. count the number of 0s and 1s.
read single - digit numbers until finding the first 0 or 1. count the number of 0s and 1s.
read single - digit numbers until finding the first 0 or 1. count the number of digits needed to get the first 0 or 1.
read 100 single - digit numbers. count the number of digits needed to get a 0 and the number of digits needed to get a 1.

Explanation:

• The goal is to simulate the number of spins until getting a "winner".
• We need to read single - digit numbers (since the wheel has 5 equal parts, single - digit numbers 0 - 9 can be used for simulation).
• We stop when we find the first 0 or 1 (assigned as "winner") and count the number of digits (simulating spins) needed to get that first 0 or 1.

Answer:

Third option: Read single - digit numbers until finding the first 0 or 1. Count the number of digits needed to get the first 0 or 1.