Experiment: procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact
- Advantages:
- Can be safer
- More cost-effective
- More efficient
- More data in less time
- Disadvantages:
- Not as accurate as experiments
- outside factors not included (ex: in rolling dice simulation gravity and air resistance)
- When do you not use a simulation?
- when a situation already has set results/data (won't change)
- examples: a score in a game, most purchased food, average yearly wage
- Create an idea for a simulation and describe it (you don’t actually have to code it just think about/answer the guiding questions).
A simulation that sees how traffic can be regulated by adding or removing roads in said simulation
What makes this a simulation? - Creating and removing roads can take a lot of time and energy and since we use roads every day we can't just keep removing and adding them.
Advantages and Disadvantages? - An advantage with this is you can save time and money by simulating the roads
Experiment? - An experiment in this situation would be unaffective since time and money would be involved when creating this experiement
questions_number = 6
answers_correct = 0
questions = [
"True or False: Simulations will always have the same result. \n A: True, \n B: False",
"True or False: A simulation has results that are more accurate than an experiment \n A: True, \n B: False",
"True or False: A simulation can model real world events that are not practical for experiments \n A: True, \n B: False",
"Which one of these is FALSE regarding simulations \n A: Reduces Costs, \n B: Is safer than real life experiments, \n C: More Efficient, \n D: More accurate than real life experiments",
"Which of the following scenarios would be the LEAST beneficial to have as a simulation \n A: A retail company wants to identify the item which sold the most on their website, \n B: A restaurant wants to determine if the use of robots will increase efficiency, \n C: An insurance company wants to study the impact of rain on car accidents, \n D: A sports car company wants to study design changes to their new bike design ",
"Which of the following is better to do as a simulation than as a calculation \n A: Keeping score at a basketball game, \n B: Keeping track of how many games a person has won, \n C: Determining the average grade for a group of tests, \n D: Studying the impact of carbon emissions on the environment"
]
question_answers = [
"B",
"B",
"A",
"D",
"A",
"D"
]
print("Welcome to the Simulations Quiz!")
def ask_question (question, answer):
print("\n", question)
user_answer = input(question)
print("You said: ", user_answer)
if user_answer == answer:
print("Correct!")
global answers_correct
answers_correct = answers_correct + 1
else:
print("You are incorrect")
for num in range(questions_number):
ask_question(questions[num], question_answers[num])
print("You scored: ", answers_correct, "/6")
Describe the rolling dice simulation (answer guiding questions)
The simulation asks how many dice you want to roll and then give a output from 1-6. It simulates the rolling of dice no matter how many time you want to roll it. When you want to roll for example, 100 dice it would be hard to find that many and count all of the results so the simulation is better.
Add a feature onto the rolling dice simulation above
- ex: a 14-sided dice or expand the purpose of the simulation (hint: use conditionals to make dice part of a game/real life situation)def parse_input(input_string):
if input_string.strip() in {"1", "2", "3","4", "5", "6"}:
return int(input_string)
else:
print("Enter a number from 1 to 6.")
raise SystemExit(1)
import random
# rolling of the dice
def roll_dice(num_dice):
roll_results = []
for _ in range(num_dice):
roll = random.randint(1, 6)
roll_results.append(roll)
return roll_results
# asking how many dice you want to roll
num_dice_input = input("How many dice do you want to roll? [1-6] ")
num_dice = parse_input(num_dice_input)
roll_results = roll_dice(num_dice)
# printing the results of the roll
print("Dice Rolled:", roll_results)