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The Math Forum: The Cereal Box Problem

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A cereal company is offering six different prizes in their boxes. How many boxes would you expect to have to purchase in order to collect all six prizes? Known as the Cereal Box Problem, this question is explored here. A solution is given along with an explanation and comments on how this could be extended to other, more detailed, areas of statistics.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
chance, experimental probability, probability, problem solving strategies, theoretical probability
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Additional Tags
analyzing probability, analyzing probability data, basic probability, discuss and explain, discuss the problem, problem-solving skills, math forum, the math forum: the cereal box problem, problem solving, theoretical probability (simple events)
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
Common Core
MP1