AC9M10P02 Year 10 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

design and conduct repeated chance experiments and simulations using digital tools to model conditional probability and interpret results

Elaborations

• 1 using samples of different sizes with and without replacement from a population to identify when the difference in methods becomes negligible
• 2 recognising that an event can be dependent on another event and that this will affect the way its probability is calculated
• 3 using simulations to gather data on frequencies for situations involving chance that appear to be counter-intuitive, such as the three-door problem or the birthday problem
• 4 identifying situations in real-life where probability simulations are used for decision-making, such as supply and demand of product, insurance risk and queueing
• 5 using simulation to predict the number of people likely to be infected with a strain of flu or virus

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