This manipulative provides opportunities to:
Explore the probability of an event
Compare empirical and theoretical probabilities
Drop 1, 10, or 100 balls at a time
Adjust the number of pegs and change the probability that balls will fall to the left or right
Observe the summary statistics and parameters
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Simulation by PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder, licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://phet.colorado.edu)
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