Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4

Welcome to the first ESCOT Problem of the Week for the new millenium! We will be playing the Rock, Paper, Scissors game to explore some concepts of probability. For those of you who are not familiar with Rock, Paper, Scissors, it is a choosing game in which two or more people make throws with their hands. The throws resemble the shapes of a rock, scissors and paper. The game is scored as follows: Rock smashes Scissors (rock wins); Paper covers Rock (paper wins); Scissors cuts paper (scissors wins). If both players make the same throw, it is a tie.

Directions for the Simulations:

Each time you run the simulation, you must first press the Reset Button. Then you must press the Clear Graph Button so that you can start a new simulation. Next press either the Step button or the Run button. The Step button will step through the game one throw at a time. The Run button will run through the entire set of trials. We recommend stepping through a few throws in each activity first before running the simulation.

Please remember that if you press the Clear Button, you must reset the game by pressing the Reset Button.

To run the simulation hit the Run Button after Pressing the Reset Button.
To stop the simulation hit the Stop Button.
To step through the simulation hit the Step Button; it is the small yellow arrow to the right of the Run button.
To reset the simulation, hit the Reset Button.
To reset the graph, hit the Clear Graph Button.
To completely clear the worksheet, hit the Clear Button.

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