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Resource Type: Assessment, Assignment

An investigation-style task for the NSW Mathematics Advanced Year 11 topic Discrete probability distributions (S1.2).

Student's investigate discrete probability distributions of the leading digits of datasets and compare to Benford's Law.

Includes: assignment booklet (to be edited before use) with submission, timing and task details. A detailed marking guideline is included.

For Part 4, the zip file includes 50 unique datasets (Set A and B) in each.

The Excel example file is not part of the assignment, but gives an example of using Excel to analyse the first 1000 terms in the Fibonacci sequence.

Updated 13 October 2020, some external resources:

• Number 1 and Benford's Law, Numberphile
• A web-site Testing Benford's Law, illustrates some large datasets compared to Benford's Law.
• Episode 4 of the Netflix series, Connected: Digits, is about Benford's Law.

4 November 2019 Edit: 13 October 2020