Spinner Section; Cards Section - Texas Instruments Probability Simulation User Manual

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Spinner Section

5.1 Setting up the simulation
This section has basically the same settings as the coin section. The only
main difference is the Sections setting. This can be typed in as between 2
and 8. This creates more sections in the spinner area plus creates more
areas for weights to be placed on. A spinner will spin over the allotted
sections and the arrow will stop over the final section. For visual clarity,
the spinner will NOT end on a separation line in this simulation. See
SECTION 2.
5.2 Use of the section
This is a bit different section than the others in use. There is only ONE
spinner, but there can be different numbers of sections and each section
can be weighed. The section size will correspond with the weight on that
section. While the spinner is spinning, there will be a number on the
upper right hand side displaying the number that the spinner is currently
over. This will show the number clearly even when some sections are too
small to see clearly.
5.3 Exporting data lists
The data screen allows the user to export the trial data into lists. In this
section, the ' SPIN' list will contain the trial number. The ' SECT' list will
hold the number of the section on which the spinner stopped for each trial.
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Cards Section

6.1 Setting up the simulation
There are relatively few settings for this section. You are limited to
drawing one card at a time but the decks can be changed.
6.1.1 Decks
6.1.2 Replace
6.1.3 Deck Size
6.2 Use of the section
Since this section has a replace option like the marbles section, an "R" will
appear in the upper left hand corner when replace is turned on. Of course,
having replace turned off would mean that you could run out of cards. In
This is set at 1 for default. You can have 1, 2 or 3 decks. This
means that for multiple decks, more than one copy of a card will
exist to choose.
When this is set to yes, each card is replaced after it is drawn and
counted. If this is set to no, the card is removed when it is drawn.
This setting is here to allow for use of a European style deck of 32
cards. (There are no special suits for the 32-card deck.) The other
deck available is 52 and is the default.
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