Answer each of the following questions.
a) What does it mean to choose numbers “at random?”
b) Why is the Math.random function useful for simulating games of chance?
c) Why is it often necessary to scale and/or shift the values produced by Math.random?
d) Why is computerized simulation of real-world situations a useful technique?
a) Every number has an equal chance of being chosen at any time.
b) Because it produces a series of random numbers.
c) To produce random numbers in a specific range.
d) It enables more accurate predictions of random events such as cars arriving at toll booths and people arriving in lines
at a supermarket. The results of a simulation can help determine how many toll booths to have open or how many cashiers
to have open at a specified time.
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