Posts Tagged ‘geometry’

Question by Sherlock H: How can I relate geometry to casino games like craps, blackjack, texas hold ‘em, and slots?
I would love to have Casino Week in my Geometry class but I’m not sure how to relate the subject to Geometry. Only Geometric help please, no Algebra.

Best answer:

Answer by dadboyle
I can only think of MAYBE with roulette, you can talk about arc length of each slot (360 degrees divided by 38 slots) you can then compare how it changes with single zero roulette (360 degrees divided by 37 slots). You could also do this with the wheels on a slot machine (ex. you want the wheel to have ten different pictures and the wheel has a radius of 6 inches, how big should each picture be).

that’s all i can think of right now.

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Question by Lookingforadvice: Help with a geometry bonus question?? PLEASE?
The casino manager wished to check the bias on the roulette wheel, so he asked six of his croupiers to report back to him at the end of the week with the number on the wheel which had been most successful.
The wheel consisted of 36 numbers 1 to 36 with no zero.
These were the 6 answers:
A said, “It was even.”
B said, “It was odd.”
C said, “It was prime.”
D said, “It was square.”
E said, “It had at least one 2 in it.”
F said, “It was a single digit.”
(The number 1 is not considered to be a prime number.)
But two had lied. Which number was most successful?

Best answer:

Answer by Joel J
2. Its even, its prime, it has at least one “2″ in it, and it is a single digit. B and D are lying.

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