Name: _______________________________________________________
Date: ____________________________________________
FST
Unit 3: Stem Plots
Activity: Game of Greed
Game Rules:
Everyone stands. Everyone starts with a score of 3 prior to each roll, students have the 2 optionsi.)
Sit down and keep your accumulated score.
ii.)
Remain standing and gambling on the next roll.
A roll of 1 causes each active (standing)player to lose their accumulated points for that round. A roll
of 2-6 results in that number being added to the score for each player still standing. The round ends
once a 1 comes up.
Record our data here:
Round 1= ________________ Round 2= ________________ Round 3= ________________
Round 4= ________________ Round 5= ________________ Total= ________________
Record your gender and your total on the board:
Males: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Females: _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Analyze:
1. From the information above, construct a back to back comparative stemplot for the data of game
totals based on gender. Make sure that your stemplot has a key!
2. Compare the distributions of game totals based on gender. What trends do you see? (consider
things like range, shape, and median)