1. Gambling
as a form of risk-taking behaviour.
Write down your and your partner's names:
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Read the comic book “Chances Are” with the story of Joe.
Then, with your partner, fill in the form:
You'll see that the more Joe gambles, the less he gets the outcomes he hopes for.
In other words, what Joe hopes will be his outcomes are different from the actual outcomes.
MMaybe if Joe knew how to calculate a measure of the chance of the actual outcomes, known as probability, he
wouldn't have gambled. If he had known the probabilities, he would have known that it was likelyy that he'd lose.
(In the next unit we'll have a close look at how to calculate probabilities.)
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Unit 7.3
Learning Activity Sheet
Write down the activities What are the outcomes What are the actual
Joe gambles on: Joe hopes for? outcomes?
p3:
p4:
p5/6:
p7:
p12