Over the last week, we have been working with probability and a game called wipeout. The game is basically played by trying to accumulate the most amount of points by rolling a die. You can roll as many times as you want, but when a one is rolled you lose and all of your points are "wiped out". We played and tested and experimented with this game for a few days just gathering data and trying to find a way to find a number of points that we should stop at. We have been trying to find the best strategy for this game. We realized that there is a 1/6 chance to land on a one each time you roll. We also realized that there is a one out of six chance in landing on any other number on the die. This brought us to the conclusion that no matter how many times you roll, you will still have the same chance of landing on a one as any other turn. Without using the habit of conjecture and test, we would have never came to this conclusion. Testing our theories helped us in many ways.
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