Acute and Obtuse Triangle Simulation

This Monte Carlo Simulation will choose 3 angles that sum to 180 degrees and construct a triangle with those measurements. It will repeat this experiment for a user-determined number of trials. Each trial adds to a running average that shows the proportion of acute vs obtuse triangles generated during the simulation. The result can be confirmed analytically to be around 19.31% acute.

 

Taylor Gibson

 
Resource Type
Activity
Tags
acute  carlo  monte  obtuse  statistics 
Target Group (Age)
15 – 18
Language
English (United States)
 
 
GeoGebra version
4.2
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